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...appeal to The Crimson to take up the cause. The hockey team, which has suffered on so many Beanpot Mondays, will love you for it. And so will some of us alumni, who love and applaud the hockey team and sometimes suffer along with it. John C. Cort...
Like many women, Nancy Cort longed to be the size she was at age 18 -- size 8, to be precise -- 28 years and dozens of pounds ago. The Westport, Conn., schoolteacher enrolled in a weight-loss program, dropped 35 lbs. and then, with just 15 lbs. more to go, decided to call a halt to her dieting. "I thought about what I could maintain, what I could be successful at," says Cort. "Sure, I'd like to be a size 8, but then I would have to exercise more." Her conclusion: "I'm content being a size...
...American woman content to be more than she can be? That sounds like heresy in a society where self-perfection (i.e., thinness) is virtually the state religion. Yet Cort typifies a new and healthier attitude toward dieting that is gradually taking hold in the American psyche. More men and women are trading in wispy dreams for a solid reality. They are picking up their forks, forsaking the latest diet fads and deciding to shrink their expectations more than their bodies...
...hour before curtain, in the basement of the 1,100-seat Cort Theater, the kids assemble for a voice lesson under a maze of heating pipes and lighting wires. Take-out fried chicken, quarts of Tropicana are put aside. "Feel how loose your tongue is! Baaa, baaa, baaa," exhorts the teacher, an ivory- skinned redhead, hammering on a piano key with her index finger. The kids imitate the sound and start giggling. "Don't laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher...
...play produced commercially. The cast were relative unknowns. The play's subject is gloomy and its ending violent; the characters are mostly black, and the two whites are unsympathetic. Yet since it opened last October, it has played to 60% of capacity in the 1,108-seat Cort Theater, although it has not yet been able to repay its backers...