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The pageant and the ensuing mix-up seemed a fitting preview of the 22nd Olympiad, displaying, as one visiting U S sportswnter unkindly put it, "the Russian proclivity for excelling at pomp and fouling up circumstance." Spartakiad's first week did produce scores of minor organizational glitches that need...
The flavor of this play is Tennessee Williams in a mildewed tea bag. The setting is a dilapidated gingerbread boathouse in Lebanon, Mo. The time is 1944 or, more pertinently, the limbo of time wasted. The heroine, Sally (Trish Hawkins), is 31, and a Wasp whose real creed is to...
Next weekend the dance festival will perform the new and repertory works of some of the lesser-known regional choreographers in the first of three "Dance Variations" programs, to be held at the Hotel Bradford Ballroom. The Dance Gallery of Northampton, Mass., the first modern dance group to tour New...
The dictionary, which serves as a guide to British, rather than American usage was compiled by a woman, Joyce M. Hawkins, 50. Aware that "chairperson" and its kin (e.g., "spokesperson") are increasingly accepted in the U.S., she notes, "In this country, chairperson is treated with mild amusement." The huge Oxford...
The new dictionary does not approve of that favorite adverb of U.S. TV announcers, "momentarily," when used to mean "in a moment"; the only accepted definition is "for a moment." As a second meaning, "hopefully" used for "perhaps" or "possibly" is included, but with a warning that many people regard...