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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director and performers must have had many more ideas on how to sing the songs than on how to stage them. Although some individual numbers have full vignettes acted out around them, there's no sense that these people have any ideas about their materials except that they're beautiful or passionate songs. Black turtlenecks and black trousers can't single-handedly evoke the contnent, and no matter how well-wrought Brel's songs are, they could use a little interpretation to carry the evening...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Black Sweaters, Black Humor | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...group of Quad residents and college administrators President Horner selected to manage the new Radcliffe Recreational athletic center decided at a meeting earlier this week not to admit freshmen to the facility except as guests of Quad residents...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Committee Restricts Freshmen From Quad Athletic Facility | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flat Country | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...afternoon's close, the teams had grown indistinguishable, a constant, chilling rain having rendered the field a sodden, gelatinous plain, unfit for any athletic endeavor, except, perhaps, brown-water canoeing...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Gives Gridders 23-14 Mudbath | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

This is an easy issue. Except for President Bok and his department of Government and Community Affairs, virtually everyone in Cambridge is against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Issues in Tomorrow's Election | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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