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...help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail may lead a player from Kigali to Istanbul, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Cowboy Hall of Fame, or from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Mayan ruins. Some of the questions are far from easy: players may have to know the currency of a distant country, identify a South Pacific island tribe, or describe the significance of historical figures such...
...today, most students ignore issues beyond Johnston Gate. This year, while reports emerged questioning the quality of the city's water, while negotiations continued on the University's impact on and responsibility to the city and while state officials threatened to put a 16-lane, 11-story highway interchange in East Cambridge, most Harvard students went about their routine without noticing...
...hurt that gate was in the title. Watergate. Heaven's Gate. Billy Bathgate. As the production of E.L. Doctorow's best seller went over budget and reportedly out of whack, bathgate is what Hollywood figured the Disney studio would take -- in red ink -- when the film finally opened. Its summer premiere was postponed; last month a new ending was shot (then discarded); stories surfaced of clashes between director Robert Benton and his star, Dustin Hoffman. Oh, and Bruce Willis was in it, so it must...
Well, so what? Before Kevin Costner's smash Dances with Wolves opened, the town's grumble bunnies were calling it Kevin's Gate. Which is not to predict that Billy B. will be a hit; it lacks, by design, the grapefruit-in-your-face impact of most gangster classics. But this is superior filmmaking, as handsomely conceived and realized as Dick Tracy, but darker, more resonant. It has a grace and a gravity rare just now in American films. Oh, and Willis, as a high-living hoodlum, is one dandy dandy...
Quite enough. The Real Live Brady Bunch opened at Chicago's Annoyance Theater in June 1990 and ran for 14 months to packed houses. This fall it moved to New York City, where it is drawing enthusiastic crowds at that haven of hip, the Village Gate. The audience roars in recognition, laughs at all the dumb lines and sometimes shouts them out before the actors. "We hated the show then and we hate it now," said one recent visitor, "but it's very funny...