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According to Mel Elfin, the weekly news magazine's special projects editor and executive editor of the annual "America's Best Colleges" supplement, Harvard fell in the rankings because, for the first time, enough schools reported how many of their classes have more than 50 students to make that statistic significant...
...seemed more fragile, both physically and emotionally. Moceanu wobbled on the balance beam and was never in contention. Dawes and Miller, two stoic 19-year-olds, each made a major flub on the floor exercise and walked off sobbing, aware that their medal chances had vanished. That allowed the elfin Ukrainian Lilia Podkopayeva, the reigning world champion, to edge past three tough Romanians to win the gold...
...golden velvet curtain slowly rises at the Wang Center. A magnificent forest filled with frolicking fairies and flutterig butterflies appears behind it. Suddenly Puck, an elfin creature scantily clad with leaves, leaps into view. He chuckles and grins as he dashes and twirls about the stage. The audience gasps with delight at the magical picture, captivated by the fairy-tale scene unfurling through pirouettes and arabesques before their very eyes. But this is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill Brothers Grimm tale winning the hearts of people all over the city. This week, the Boston Ballet is weaving Shakespeare...
...Elfin singers from Iceland are not high on the Committee to Protect Journalists' hit list. This may change, however, since BJORK let fly at a reporter at Bangkok airport, throwing her to the ground and banging her head on the floor. "All I said was, 'Welcome to Thailand,' and she just hit me, lost control and went crazy," cable reporter JULIE KAUFMAN told Reuters. The Grammy nominee telephoned Kaufman the next day to say she was sorry, explaining that she was concerned about her son Sindri, and apologized publicly in a statement. Kaufman won't press charges. No word...
Ives is a wondrous wordmaster and, as spiffily directed by Jason McConnell / Buzas, these elfin works could be called Stoppard Lite. But they are really Beckett Brisk, for they are about the creative process, frantic and forlorn, of getting through life. They suggest that all human existence is an improvisatory rehearsal for some grand opening night that may never arrive. Panic is the universal language. And yet, as Ives shows, rewriting life can produce a happy ending. Destiny may be, as his Trotsky says, "only a capitalist explanation for the status quo," but it can also be a sure thing...