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Lauren M. Crocker '85, a member of the women's crew team, said yesterday that in past years team members were given $20 for vacation-time meals. "It was kind of a drag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Services to Offer Option For Meals Over Spring Break | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...dulling of voter interest and participation resulted directly from the endless stream of contests from January to June. Unlike the national election in Britain, which lasts only three weeks and generates profound voter excitement, the current American system lulls potential voters to sleep. If the World Series were to drag on for six months, interest in the outcome would probably wane...

Author: By Jean E. Engelinayer, | Title: Playing With the Rules | 1/10/1984 | See Source »

...somewhere in there, you'll learn and use the Law." Here, I began to protest. "Not necessarily law school," he amended, "but you'll use it and it'll help you in what you do." I relaxed--perhaps John prophesied a career reviewing TV shows like Perry Mason and Drag- net for local community papers, while I settle down with rich S.J.N...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: Ministry of Truth | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

...learn the manner to glide with the vowels, and to drag the voice gently from the high to the lower notes," advised Pier Francesco Tosi in his book Observations on the Florid Song. "Let him take care that the higher the notes, the more it is necessary to touch them with softness, to avoid screaming. Let him take care that the words are uttered in such a manner that they be distinctly understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bel Canto of the Barroom | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...Cage aux Folies. The one megabit musical in a torpid Broadway season, Harvey Fierstein's gay valentine boasts a spectacular turn by George Hearn, as a Saint-Tropez drag queen, and surefire Jerry Herman songs that might have been composed on a calliope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: THE BEST OF 1983: Theater | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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