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...straw: the Harvard theatrical community has gone preternaturally escapist this year. With the exception of a planned Adams House production of Medea--recently scrapped because of lack of interest--and a Winthrop House production of The Plain Dealer, the other House selections, Leverett's Applause and Kirkland's Hay Fever, are marked by unusual frivolity. Add to these plays the usual Hasty Pudding show (this year reincarnated as Keep Your Pantheon) and the semiannual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and we have what someone once called the triumph of sugar over diabetes. But what of the Loeb Mainstage? After an interesting...
...Crimson icemen overcame a brief bout with Spring Fever (which has so often developed into the terminal ECAC Swoon) last night in Watson Rink and went on to manhandle Providence College in the opening round of the ECAC Division One hockey tournament to the tune...
...with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues and two-hour waits at the pump. Otherwise sane citizens are in the cold grip of the nation's newest obsession: gasoline fever...
...Gasoline fever appears to be worst in the Northeast, Florida and Arizona. But a few places-Texas, the Beep South and the Great Plains states-are virtually awash with gasoline. Some reasons for the disparity...
...longer-raising the suspicion that the film's popularity may be less a show-business phenomenon than a lesson in crowd psychology. "I'm the first on our street to see it," chirped one suburban matron. All kinds of people, it seems, have been infected by Exorcist fever. Teenage girls on triple-tier wedgies teeter down the aisle behind pin-striped businessmen carrying briefcases. A silver-haired woman clutching a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young and to contain...