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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening scene, famous for its courtly formality, its symmetry, and its fairy-tale irrationality, looks completely straightforward until you notice the Fool wandering around in a squat, waving a wooden gyroscope over his head like some mystical wand. The standard swipes, grunts, and lunges of the Shakespearian sword-fight punctuate the duel between Edgar and Edmund, but the preceding battle between France's forces and the English army becomes a strange slow-motion dumbshow on Cain's stage...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Bougas received her toughest challenge to date in the finals yesterday, as Jean Osachuk, the second seed from Mt. Holyoke, put up a stiff fight before falling 7-5, 6-2. Leading 5-2 in that first set, Bougas allowed Osachuk to knot the score at 5-5 before taking the next two games...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Racquetwomen Win State Title | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Crimson, ready, fight...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: V--I--C--T--O--R--Y | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Close your eyes and slip back in time. It's the high school homecoming game. You are 16, the band is grinding out an off-key school fight song, the cheerleaders' pom-poms flutter in the breeze...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: V--I--C--T--O--R--Y | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Open your eyes; it's the first Harvard home game of the season against UMass. You are 20, the band is still leading a fight song of sorts...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: V--I--C--T--O--R--Y | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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