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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HRDC's Maguire, on the other hand, says, "Turning people away without giving them a chance is inexcusable, especially since some of the most dynamic people acting at Harvard now don't fall into any one theatrical complexion." She added that a play like "The Royal Family" is a dated vehicle, and needs deletion of offensive phrases like "shuffling two-bit." Marcela Davison, producer of "The Royal Family," says that she "never intended to have closed casting. That's a tenet of every show: I know that's a policy of HRDC...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: All in the Family | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...jogging has also caused alterations. Before he started, he carried 158 lbs. on his 5-ft. 9½-in. frame; today he weighs 148 Ibs., a drop that has required him to send his suits out for refitting. Carter now regularly uses a sunscreen lotion to protect his fair complexion. This often leaves his face looking splotchy, says Lukash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I've Got to Keep Trying | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...what about now, when it counts? How will Burke St. John perform? Let's put it this way: he won't hold back this year's squad. But he will bring a change in the complexion of Harvard football. The days of Larry Brown and the big--play offense are gone. "This year you'll see a lot more option work, more of a ball--control type offense," St. John said last week...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: There Are Quarterbacks--Believe It or Not | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...ever been to a science-fiction convention you've seen them in a less egregious form: short, bad complexion, slightly overweight, greasy hair, glasses, copy of Stranger in a Strange Landdiscreetly folded over an otherwise prominent hard-on. At least they have something to talk about: the possibilities of sending Isaac Asimov to Pluto, or the time Mr. Sulu's left ball was shot off by Klingons. It's worse at Dracula conventions: the plastic fangs they wear inhibit conversation, and instead of meeting tall, gaunt, Continental types they find only themselves, or else fat, greasy middle-aged...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...reason for anyone to mark her as a future Tory leader, much less Britain's first woman Prime Minister. She was not a member of any inner circle, not a protégée of any powerful party figure. Attractive in almost too meticulous a way, with a complexion as English as Devonshire cream and the instant smile of a doctor's receptionist, she looked rather like the chairman of a garden club in an affluent suburb. But in her first year as an M.P. she managed to get one of her own bills on the statute books?an early "sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tory Wind of Change | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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