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...usual, the G&S Society has assembled an outstanding cast who combine comedic talents with operatic voices. W hat's unusual about this production, however, is that G&S Hall of Famer Tom Fuller has forsaken the stage-- where he's played heroes from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo-- to make his directorial debut. Fuller's production of Iolanthe lacks the inventiveness of past G&S shows like the gimmicky H.M.S. Pinafore of two years ago, but it features moments of comic brilliance rarely matched on the Harvard stage. The scene in which two Lords try to decide which will...
...become Miss U.S.A., I would have become a counselor for the Girl Scouts this summer," said Summer Bartholomew, 23, sounding like any old girl-next-door. After collecting this year's Miss U.S.A. crown at Niagara Falls, however, the Merced, Calif., beauty has forsaken the scouting life for the banquet circuit and a shot at the Miss Universe title in San Salvador in a month. On her first-ever visit to New York City, Summer talked about her victory ("My first thought was to thank the Lord") and her recent trip to Niagara Falls ("That's where...
...CONVINCED that it was impossible to adapt West's novel into an effective movie. What would have been required was a little more daring, a little more imagination on Schlesinger's part. He might have forsaken the gaudy, lush colors with which he chose to evoke Hollywood for something simpler, more barren, might even have filmed it in black and white, thereby allowing his excellent cast to draw their weird, surrcal characters against a stark background instead of having them clash confusingly with their environment. He would have done well to have completely eliminated Tod and had more confidence...
...sincerity I say to you: we shall go on alone, but we will feel less forsaken...
...bureaucratic argot, to his willingness to compromise on ideals, Fisher is somewhat anomalous in the academic community, but he is well respected. In a self-portrait published in the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report of the Class of 1947, Fisher compared his position in public service to that of the forsaken man in the sinking boat who pumps furiously despite obvious gains by the ocean. The academics, Fisher explains now, his voice assuming a mock gravity, "are studying the situation, doing a psychoanalysis of what a funny attitude this Fisher's got." By no means irreverent, Fisher concedes. "The more time...