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...ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD would certainly label joining a floating crap game "conduct unbecoming a Harvard Student." It would probably cast a similar judgement on dancing in the chorus line at a club called "The Hot Box." But the cast of Guys and Dolls, the recent production of the Leverett Arts Society, proves that for once, the Ad Board is wrong--Harvard students can do both with great success...
Everyone seems to enjoy themselves, Paul Sagawa and Scott Alexander, who play crap-master Nathan Detroit's seedy sidekicks Nicely-Nicely and Benny, and Dave Eastman, who portrays high stakes Chicago gambler Big Julie, all turn in memorable performances. Sagawa and Alexander, clowas throughout the show, pull out all the stops in the title song as they bemoan the fate of their boss and any other guy who falls for a doll. Eastman's bellows of "Let's shoot crap!" are worthy of the evilest mobster, and the dance numbers are energetic and enthusiastic...
...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
Addiction and heroin have seemed almost exclusively coupled. Indeed, heroin's withdrawal pangs are physically terrible. Cocaine's are not. But according to people who have been dependent on both drugs, kicking cocaine can be tougher. "When they say it's not addictive, that's crap," insists Investment Banker Donald, who is struggling to beat his cocaine habit. "Just talking about it makes my sinuses clog up and my nose twitch." At Dr. Siegel's Los Angeles therapy sessions, deprived cocaine users, he says, sometimes "start crying for it, and get doubled over on the floor. It looks like...
that this business of trying to learn to write the somebody nobody had initiated yet in order not to write like anybody else is crap--that why in hell should we let ourselves get chased up into the reviews just because other people had farmed the good land before us--that the really great boys have been interested in writing poems not in writing poems differently--that why are we so scared of a cliche anyway...