Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DeVries, "How many hearts do you need to find out if it works? Would ten be enough?" As a flabbergasted DeVries indicated that ten would be good, Jones added, "If ten's enough, we'll give you 100." That sealed the deal. The research physician's dream of having ample resources and a free hand had come true. Says Jones: "Dr. Lansing told us that Dr. DeVries was unhappy because he had to spend so much time fund raising. I told Dr. Lansing we could handle that problem easily...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
Like most dreams, Romance Language builds up its head of hallucinatory steam only when the night is half over. But at full throttle, Playwright Parnell's mixture of historical figures and fanciful situations makes a genial noise. This is the land of vaudeville revisionism previously charted by Indians, Travesties and Cloud 9, where social satire speaks in the vocabulary of dreams-the mind's own romance language. It is a pleasure to see Cynthia Harris (Charlotte), Valerie Mahaffey (Emily) and the 19 other cast members cavort so merrily on the tabletop stage of Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons...
...exchange for his soul. Director Paul Bogart's muzzy little comedy appropriately pivots on the Burns-Burns confrontation when Lucifer and the Lord play poker in Caesars Palace to win the yuppie Faustus. Oh, God! You Devil has a shopping-mall message: Don't do drugs or dream of fame; go home, be ordinary. If only Gracie were alive to play the devil's advocate, this biblical vaudeville might have had a little more class...
...every Harvard person's dream--to beat Yale" said Stuart A. Kirsch '84-5, publicity coordinator for the drive...