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Iolanthe, like most Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, is a cheerfully silly piece about love with a healthy dash of British political satire. In this case, the law is the target, but it is powerless before love. The fairy Iolanthe (Celia R. Maccoby ’07), pardoned after a twenty-five-year banishment from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal, has a half-fairy (the upper half) son, named Strephon (Michael Moss ’03). Strephon is in love with Phyllis (Lisa D. Lareau ’06), who, as an orphan, has been entrusted...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, ON THEATER | Title: Musical Fairy Dramas Amuse in ‘Iolanthe’ | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s latest film mixes the chaos in Paris just before the Nazi occupation with a hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Sounds like a recipe for potential disaster, and it too often is. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...book leaves you with a heightened awareness of the smile's subliminal power. As you read this, buses around Sydney are advertising cider with a sepia photo of grave-faced frontiersmen: they saved their smiles for happy hour; while emails zip around cyberspace with the smiley emoticon of colon-dash-parenthesis. "The smile, meanwhile, is getting broader, wider, fiercer," writes Trumble. And, as his book attests, more subversive than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Lip-Reading | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

Another one of the emotional lows on Sunday came when freshman Clifton Dawson—also a Harvard football running back, in only his second meet for the team—injured his hamstring halfway through the finals of the 60m dash, finishing in last place when his heat time would have set him up to register points...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Teams Struggle at Heps | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...addition to these two upperclassmen, freshman running back Clifton Dawson just began running track for Harvard, coming in second in the 60 meter dash in a meet against Yale earlier this month...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Championship Bout: New Recruit Should Play Two | 2/24/2004 | See Source »

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