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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attended St. Cyprian's with George Orwell and Cyril Connolly and made his way into Harrow with honors by some inventive cheating on tests. At Cambridge, he was too concerned with applause to bother about academics. In his senior year, Vickers notes, Beaton was cast in drag for a student revue. "He began to practise high kicks for his show and found himself incapable of preparing for his exam: 'I've done absolutely no work!' Then he went to London to buy bright peppermint pink chiffon for his dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homemade Cecil Beaton | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...what they're going to miss most about being cut. Instead, not too surprisingly and too cliched, they are going to miss each other. When the moralizing commences and the banter begins to lose its freshness, sometime mid-way through the second act, the play starts to drag...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Good, Not Very Clean Fun | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...imperialist and the second 100 years take place in 20th century London. While the time gap is not explained in the play, a program note says that the family has aged only 25 years. To make things more confusing, the actors--almost all of whom were in drag in the first act--have played musical roles and are now cast more traditionally according to sex. That is if anything in this play can constitute traditional sexual behavior...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Get Off My Cloud | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...women (who could ever forget Adrian's birth scene in Rocky II?) you might be appalled by Bertrand Blier's Tenue de Soiree, a raucous romantic farce in which Macho Thief Gerard Depardieu gets the raging hots for Winsome Wimp Michel Blanc, and they both end up in drag. Still, the film is so ingenuous and vigorous that even an ardent feminist like yourself might surrender to its skewed charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Celebration of Reel Life | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...only thing it has in the way of a drawing card, and since tourism is about the only thing it has in the way of a business, there you are. Boothill graveyard holds the remains of scores who did not go gentle into that good night. The main drag, Allen Street, is virtually a shrine to the trigger- happy, to soiled doves and to strong drink. Hiring on as a deputy in April 1984, McNeely thought he spotted some connection between Tombstone's historic character and its contemporary behavior: "I mean, people ran stop signs right in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Taming a Troublesome Town | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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