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...Beatrice Street Y, troupes compete for the prize of being the finest entertainers. In dapper suits, ties and shiny shoes, they parade before the judges. Before launching into song, groups take turns lining up to face the crowd, marching in place to set the rhythms and humming their melodies. With coyly lifted pants legs, they beat time with their feet, followed by a waist-high kick. Their coiled restraint hints at martial Zulu moves. Much in evidence to an American observer are the familiar echoes of old Hollywood vaudeville movies and the African-American companies that toured South Africa more...
...addition to the success of Abraham and Patterson, junior David Barry put together his finest string of squash this season. Placed in the lower tier, Barry was not eligible for a national championship but nevertheless played his heart out en route to a birth, and near victory, in the final round of the Malloy bracket...
...DIED. BALTHUS, 92, reclusive French-born artist, considered one of the finest realist painters of the 20th century; in Rossiniere, Switzerland. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola to a Polish family living in Paris, Balthus was best known for his provocative portrayals of adolescent girls. He was one of the few artists to exhibit his work at the Louvre while still alive...
...After a couple of hours wandering the Moroccan-themed rooms it was time to decamp for the Warner Bros. party, which is traditionally one of the night's finest events. This year's party was held in vast tents in a downtown film studio. The drinks were served in glass, the roast beef and three genres of chicken were on china, and the dessert tent boasted tarte Tatin. The stars of the Warner music family were in more obvious attendance. There were more of those concentric circles. At the center of one you could discover Mark McGrath, the singer with...
...point out how little a student knows," The Crimson should show more respect toward the man who has spent half a century at Harvard and secured a reputation--among his students past and present--not merely as a tough grader, but also as one of the finest educators at this university...