Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midwest sub-regional at Minneapolis, Arkansas-Little Rock stunned 10th-ranked Notre Dame, 90-83. Earlier, in the East sub-regional at Syracuse, N.Y., Cleveland State knocked off No. 16 Indiana...
...dazzling performance as Aurora in a 1949 Sadler's Wells production of Sleeping Beauty confirmed her status as the world's most renowned ballerina. Last week at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, audiences were once again clapping for Margot Fonteyn in Sleeping Beauty. This time, however, Dame Margot, 66, had joined the cast of the 19th century ballet in the nondancing mime role of the stately Queen. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama...
...larger-than-life lady on the stage." That chivalric premise is supported by two current Broadway delights, Bernadette Peters' act-long vocal solo in Song & Dance and Lily Tomlin's one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. The same nothing-like-a-dame thinking underlies Jerry's Girls, a retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened on Broadway last week. It also applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame...
...Razor's Edge (1946); in critical condition after suffering a stroke on the street; in New York City. In her best-known film, All About Eve (1950), she played an actress who schemed to succeed a star, portrayed by Bette Davis; in real life, Baxter took over the grande dame role in Hotel in 1983 after Davis was sidelined by a stroke...
...grand dame of public service at Harvard is the Phillips Brooks House Association. And it, too, is feeling the revival's fever. "I think each year that I've been here more people have come through PBH wanting to volunteer," says Valerie A. Barton '86, the association's president. The almost century-old association now has more than 800 people working through 23 committees on such diverse issues as tutoring schoolchildren, giving advice on small claims court, improving the treatment of the mentally ill and helping refugees adjust to life in America...