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...Saturday second-seeded senior Captain Adam Beren crushed Penn's Rich Schafer, 6-1, 6-1, while the Crimson's third-ranked senior Alex Seaver ran past Dave Friedman, also giving up only one game each set. In addition, fifth-seeded Rob Wheeler and sixth-seeded Rob Loud enjoyed effortless straight-set victories over Steve Hazen and Adam Deakin, respectively...
...clothing takes on for a second the quiet shimmer of a 17th century Japanese print. Surprising combinations of garments-leather pants as part of a suit, a long jacket over foreshortened slacks, a vest worn over a coat-that scramble clichés and conventions into a new and effortless redefinition of style. A functional celebration of fabric. A reshaping of traditional geometry with witty contours, sudden symmetries and startling vectors. A new sort of freedom in clothes. An ease, the Armani ease. And that, as we say in French, is just for les openers...
...outdone, however, are the two leads played by Harvard students. Margery Hellmold '83, who will star in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers next month, brings her beautiful, seemingly effortless soprano to the title role. She plays one half of a pair of street singers in Peru and is lured away from her partner Piquillo, by the Viceroy, played by Dominic A.A. Randolph '84. Through a series of Contrivances, she is married to Piquillo without Piquillo's knowledge. Piquillo later discovers the secret but then comes to believe that La Perichole is the Viceroy's mistress; her task is to convince...
...place at the start of each 500-yard race, one can't help but think that Coach McCurdy certain of victory, must be letting a shotputter enter the sprint. But as soon as the gun goes off, it becomes quite apparent this is no shotputter. With a smooth and effortless stride, he paces himself perfectly hanging back until the gunlap, and, quite often, blowing by the competitors to take first place...
...that, on the whole, T.V. is "bad"--it screws up the kids and dulls everyone. But after damning T.V. at the dinner table, plenty of us still treat Star Trek or M*A*S*H as the crowning cultural achievements of the century. Too many critics engage in the effortless reductionism which labels all T.V. evil. But even in the truly crummy stuff, the medium has an attraction, one we are not likely to shake soon. So between the ceaseless rhetoric against the sinister box and a national willingness to sit and watch, one can see a strange symbiosis...