Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...socialite in the film version of Harold Robbins' The Betsy. For her next act, in a British television special, Down backs into a role as Phyllis Dixey, the legendary English stripper. What is it like to play an ecdysiast, after Miss Georgina? The roles, says Down, have "no comparison...
...proof of thermometer power, just wander down by the Charles River. Try February 3 first. It's a desolate, Siberian sight if ever there was one. But then, for purposes of comparison, take another walk on one of the few thong-sandal April afternoons. You will see literally dozens, perhaps even hundreds of students ardently trying to live up to the image the outsiders have stuck them with. They are there with stacks of books, pen and paper, lecture notes. Some even go so far as to come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed...
...fact, 65 undergraduates at MIT major in economics, making it one of the university's smallest concentration; by comparison, some 600 Harvard undergrads have chosen the soft science as their field, thus ranking it the college's largest enrolled major...
Rome and Louis XV France and Jacobean England and Renaissance Vienna... another Harvard musical confection is modern in comparison. I say "in comparison," because some may consider any play dealing with the Washington Senators to be just this side of ancient history. Never mind--Damn Yankees may be dated, but it boasts tunes like "You've Gotta Have Heart," "Whatever Lola Wants," "The Good Old Days" and "Goodbye Old Girl," which is more than you can say of the Globe sports pages. As you might expect, a show mixing Faust and the Yankees was combustible stuff on Broadway...
John Higginson said yesterday the race Saturday had encouraged him. The varsity "raced well except for the legitimate reasons," he said, adding, "No comparison can be made between the varsity and J.V. times...