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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Roybal credited the lights and television equipment entering and exiting the building as the source of attention, the sight of Harvard seniors in drag carrying Kulhawik into the building after her introduction may have helped...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Hasty Is Focus Of Cable Program | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Hollywood celebrities Tom Hanks and Michelle Pfeiffer will each visit Cambridge this month to receive very special degrees--degrees awarded not by robed administrators but by Harvard men in drag...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Hanks, Pfeiffer Honored By Hasty | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...spectacle of men getting dressed up as divas and belting out Verdi in falsetto may seem a specialized taste. But the appeal of La Gran Scena goes well beyond that of your usual drag show. As they have been demonstrating on their seven-city U.S. tour, these divas can convulse mainstream audiences; and they are not only consummate clowns, but they can really sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALSETTOS AND FALSIES | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job--the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALSETTOS AND FALSIES | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...counterargument is that such contentions are an excuse for the failure of Presidents and legislators to exercise any fiscal discipline, resulting in deficits that have mushroomed recently through slump and boom alike and are a severe drag on the economy. It is true that the annual budget deficit has been reduced for three years in a row, but new projections show it rising again in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. And though most economists think the trouble is not red ink as such but too much of it, an amendment attempting, say, to hold deficits to no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Going for the Easy Part | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

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