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That is not to say that the afternoon was devoid of good Crimson efforts and performances. The top Harvard story of the day was sophomore Kathleen McCloskey, who emerged as Harvard's leading point scorer with two individual first places, as well as a second place in the 100-yard freestyle...
...hostages, not partisan fingerpointing, was on Carter's mind as he sweated out his final two days in the Oval Office. After napping on a sofa for only 45 minutes Sunday night, he appeared in the White House press room at 4:56 a.m. Monday, his face drawn and devoid of emotion, to announce: "We have now reached an agreement with Iran that will result, I believe, in the freedom of our American hostages...
...minimalist risk, of course, is chopping away the meat with the fat. Syrie Maugham, the great minimalist interior designer, discarded her earliest works, stark unpainted rooms devoid of furniture and even windows, for what later became her classic minimalist style, rooms done completely in white in which enormous windows played a crucial role. Likewise, Mamet progresses in Reunion to achieve the depth that got lost in Dark Pony, and expands his message to the maximum...
...same program of another work, The Berlin Requiem, which, as presented, is so starkly untheatrical that it makes you feel uncomfortable merely to be sitting in the theater. Hastily substituted for two Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing in the face of death...
...evening, however, was not devoid of excellent Crimson performances. Sophomores Terri Frick and Kathleen McCloskey each copped new pool records. Frick establishing a new mark in the 200-yard Butterfly in a brisk 2:11.72, and then winning the 400 Individual Medley in 4:47.66--just three-tenths of a second shy of a new record...