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...credit to director Nicholas Martin, who manages to cram it all into the the Agassiz--no mean feat given the size of the company and the dimensions of the stage. But once the entire 26-member cast is up there belting away, it's worth the effort...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: A Victorian Big-Budget Spectacular | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...cast really deserves a hand for pulling off a difficult feat with grace. Particularly noteworthy is Leah Nutting as the tyrannical bridge-playing editor Betty Scant. Any writer who has ever suffered under the tyrannical hand of a tasteless editor will marvel at the verisimilitude she brings to her tirades, considering that she has a red polygon perched on her noggin. If only all our editors were so well dressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comedy Geometry | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...racquetmen are still considered the favorite to win a record fifth-straight Ivy League Championship--a feat which earlier Crimson squads twice equalled...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Learning to Live Without Kenton | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...quite so simple, of course, but the fencers almost pulled the feat off last year, upsetting the Quakers only to fall to the Lions...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Three Weapons, One Goal | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...defined in court cases as the illicit profiting from information about private corporate behavior before that knowledge has reached the public domain. It has been compared to playing poker with marked cards. But deciding when the cards have been improperly marked -- and, above all, proving it -- is no mean feat, since rumor, innuendo and split-second inference are the stuff of ordinary stock trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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