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...being prepared for whatever was out there." Sarah Keller, Ph.D. '79, now teaching anthropology at Eastern Washington University, agrees that the Cambridge mystique remains as powerful as ever: "You say 'Harvard' and there's this pause," she says. However, she still shudders a bit at some of the memories: halfway through her grueling Ph.D. oral, her inquisitors abruptly invited her to join them for a tea break and informal chat. "I think they wanted to see if you could be graceful even when your life was passing before your eyes," she says...
...than a satire, the production was a dreamlike allegory about the corruption of all plutocrats and of all firebrands. Woodruff and Set Designer Douglas Stein offered dazzling visual imagery, from a demented New Year's Eve ball to a row of garret apartments that appeared, suffused with golden light, halfway up the back wall of the stage. This technical facility never overwhelmed the text. The finale, when Figaro (Tony Plana) returned to join the junta and declared that the real measure of progress would be if the life of Almaviva (Olek Krupa) was spared, was a simply staged moment...
...Halfway around the world from Turkey, other nautical archaeologists were at work last April off Vanikoro, a 300-sq.-mi. island in the southwestern Pacific's Solomon chain. The setting was pure Indiana Jones: mosquito-infested jungles; rivers teeming with crocodiles; heavy, brooding clouds hovering over an inhospitable landscape...
While Kadar was cannily constructing Hungary's halfway-house economy, he scrupulously followed the Soviet line in matters of foreign policy. Hungarian troops took part in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and its athletes joined the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. When Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Budapest in June for a Warsaw Pact summit, Kadar guided him through the streets, greeting curious crowds with hearty smiles...
...test of both Voyager and its pilots. On their 4 1/2-day flight, Rutan and Yeager were confined to a cabin that is only 2 ft. wide at its narrowest and 7 1/2 ft. long, just enough room for the passenger to lie alongside the pilot, who can sit only halfway upright. While spelling each other at the controls during their 580-mile laps over the California coast between San Luis Obispo and San Francisco, the pilots could not relax; Voyager is so light that it is easily buffeted by the wind and needs constant piloting. Says Yeager...