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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, Wuthering Heights: A PopMyth, opened on the Loeb Mainstage earlierthis spring to popular, if not critical, success.But Keshishian was graded solely for his script,the actual adaptation, not for the production orits success. So his grade was not determined bythe box office take, nor by the number of kindwords New York Times drama critic FrankRich '71 might have had for the show...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Wacky Side Of Senior Theses | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

Molly the blues singer, that is. The one who recorded an album, Molly Sings, when she was six. Whose favorite vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...unloaded three gasoline bombs, nine handguns and four rifles. Waving bizarre political tracts (one was headlined ZERO-INFINITY), Young announced in the school office, "This is a revolution." Doris, telling some teachers that there was to be a surprise birthday party, lured 167 schoolchildren and adults into a first-grade classroom, where they stood at gunpoint in frightened silence. Declaring that he had enough explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked Excell. Replied Young: "Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wyoming Horror: A fiery schoolhouse bomb | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Then, the inevitable happened. After sixth grade, I went to a different school than Jon, and by eighth grade we hardly played at all. Jon tried to justify everything by saying that my franchise was bought out and had to move away...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Preserving the Mystique | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...were re-united in high school after 10th grade but haven't played a single game since we turned...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Preserving the Mystique | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

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