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...write in, hope for the best, and wait. Actress Meredith MacRae takes the Fantasy "truck" across the country and stops at the houses of fortunate correspondents. One woman described her wish to give her husband an orange tree, something he's always wanted. Another wife hoped to win a drum set for her fireman husband because he had to sell his old one. Admittedly, not owning a drum set of a fruit tree doesn't constitute economic destitution. But the viewers' letters and obvious joy (a camera crew of course record the happy fantasy realization, "it's a miracle...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Happiness Hype | 4/26/1983 | See Source »

...wasn't an athletic contest that brought the Yale Precision Marching Band up north to display its talents. The trip celebrated a victorious moment for the band's drum major, David Y. Polinsky, who submitted his senior thesis yesterday morning...

Author: By Preston W. Brooks and Deborahl L. Paul, S | Title: Bulldog Invaders Bark Up Harvard's Trees | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...that got away from Brecht the play that unlike The Threepennv Opera Or The Good-Women of Setzuan, transcended Brecht's theories of theater and look on a life of its own. The final scene in which Mother Courage's mute daughter climbs to a rooftop and beats a drum to warn a nearly town of the approaching enemy can be one of the most moving scenes in post-modern drama. Because of its emotional force it almost disproves its creator's theories In that way it could be much like the ART's recent production of Waiting For Godot...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: A Courageous Attempt | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...across himself on occasion. "Bench's battery-mate." He lets out a laugh, one of his high-pitched cackles. Johnny Bench still toils in Cincinnati, but he's not a catcher any more, and Bench's battery-mate is back in New York City, mostly to drum up customers, maybe to prepare himself for what he considers a "cerebral challenge"-managing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spray Hitting in the Spring | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Even in its more refined moments, seicento art in Naples was geared to a love of strong sensation and imminent catastrophe: crowds and Vesuvius in the background, diseases of the body, instabilities of the soul, Thanatos and Eros beating the big bass drum. One recognizes in the Magdalens and Madonnas the women that visitors like John Evelyn wrote of, "generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous." Even still lifes by artists like Paolo Porpora and Giovanni Battista Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A City of Crowded Images | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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