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...Hasty Pudding stays true to form, it will be presenting another adaptation of itself February 25 through March 30th.- Talented leads, unshapely calves and borrowed gags are the hallmarks of a Pudding show. Don't think that a chorus line in drag means a slapdash show. Pudding productions are often the slickest in town. The director, designer and leading man (aren't they all leading men?) are veterans of last year's show...

Author: By Shirley Chriane, | Title: STAGE | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...still gets the girl," gloats Elizabeth Ashley. At 37, she is playing a 16-year-old Cleopatra to Harrison's 50-year-old Caesar in the G.B. Shaw play at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ashley is delighted with her jewel-studded Egyptian robes, "the most breathtaking drag I've ever had on." For her sequined eye makeup she got some tips from another Cleopatra: Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 31, 1977 | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...what about Reading Period? If you resign yourself to taking exams after the festive season, three weeks of concentrated studying is not a bad deal. But come on. How many of you had no classes to attend, no papers to write, and no sections to drag youselves to this month? Oh, and for all of you Chem 10 students, isn't it nice to have problem sets all the way up to the first day of finals? Most people probably have less than a week of reading period, and even if they do have more, who needs it? One solid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...frigid Fulton Street, the dilapidated main drag of Brooklyn's black Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, idle young men were warming their hands at trash-barrel fires and talking about their future. Life is bleak even in the best of times for people on Fulton Street, where hustling and mugging are commonplace. It has been even worse lately because of New York City's empty coffers and the continued loss of factory jobs to other parts of the country. Nonetheless, Jimmy Carter's election has brought a measure of wary optimism. Explained Community Worker Eduardo Standard: "They expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Middle Atlantic No Place To Go But Up | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...aerodynamics with its smooth, flush-riveted body. With his characteristic attention to detail, Hughes designed the plane so that even the slots in the screwheads that attach the wooden wings to the aluminum fuselage were lined up in the direction of flight, presumably to reduce air drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Second Hottest Show in Town | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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