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...thirds of the play's to background for the real drama of the second half. In this light the play's first act is much too long and rambling; an entirely extraneous street women and her rabid dog, included purely for a few limp laughs, are only the furthest extreme of the play's meandering. The early scenes of the second act show what that first act might have been: here, the script is tight, and much more amusing...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

Glimp is perhaps the furthest removed from Bok, and the rest of Mass Hall. His job is to keep the alumni in their current generous frame of mind, and he is apparently succeeding splendidly...

Author: By Thcina H. Howlett, | Title: The Admiral and His Captains | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

After the first period, the furthest thing from the minds of any Lynah Rink Rat was a Harvard comeback possibility Cornell's Roy Kerling, Mark Henderson and Dan Duffy scored three straight Big Red Goals following Crimson center Phil Falcone's first goal just 3:20 into the game, and it looked like the Lynah Rink jinx was kicking up its heels again...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen Surprise Big Red, 5-4 (OT) | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

Elvis Presley came out of the South, came out, as a truck driver once told me, "singing the pants off songs," but still, he came out of the South. If the furthest south you tend to get is D.C., then Elvis might not make a lot of sense, except as some sort of defiant yahoo, some blazing anachronism. After all, by the time most of us got to him, he looked pretty silly in those white jump suits with the high collars, and that plasticene pompadour. He was singing in Vegas then--our most improbable city--or out in Honolulu...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much to ship as to buy. We have to squeeze out every inch." Gibson spent two years in The Bronx as a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Inside the cathedral, he will tell you, he soars beyond the "furthest reaches of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Mortar and the Cathedral | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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