Word: garbers
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...that Little Me is not still funny, but one tends to laugh at it more than with it. In the original, Belle's many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...
Interestingly, the four departments that will gain a tenured woman next year--Anthropology (Sally Falk Moore). English (Marjorie Garber). Psychology and Social Relations (Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psych and Soc Rel), and History (Angeliki Laiou)--all were underutilizing. Department members decline to comment on whether gender played a role in those deliberations, though Rosovsky had met beforehand with the four and the underutilizing departments...
They growled and clawed more than a little bit at the beginning. A few of them, most notably head coach Ted Garber, were still snapping and snarling right down to the end. But for the most part the University of New Hampshire Wildcats proved pretty easy to tame...
...meantime, UNH coach Garber was busy trying to bring his team back from the twilight zone. The Wildcats were offsides too many times to count, although the official's only noticed about half of the infractions. Still, half of too many is a lot, especially since offsides has been a rare call in Harvard games so far this season...
...Garber's troubles mounted after he thought he'd caught the Crimson with its guard down. Or rather, with its strings long. The UNH coach accused Harvard defender Eric Mendelman of having more than the allowed two inches of extra cord protruding from his stick. But the referees checked it out and said the stick was okay...