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...exciting finish to the second game of the opening round in the Beanpot Basketball Tournament last night in Boston Garden, B.U. toppled B.C., 85-83. The Terriers meet Harvard in the final game of the second annual Hub hoop championship scheduled...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Cagers Open Season With Narrow Win | 12/3/1971 | See Source »

Producing an Ionesco is usually a choice between doing it straight and emphasizing the naturalistic elements, or stripping down or beefing up the text and emphasizing the absurd. The Hub theatre in their production of The Bald Soprano choses naturalism, and proves quite effectively that the Absurd can be played like drawing room comedy...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: The Bald Soprano | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

...Hub protrays this world admirably. The set is classic; pictures of the Doges' Palace, Grandmother, and the family dogs overlook crumpled chairs and a decanter of port. The costumes are all very tweedy, exuding pipe tobacco or rose water. The acting blends right in, and except for the usual accent problems (why can't American actors stop trying to convince us they are really British?) is generally quite competent. The women are the best; Gloria Fisher as Mrs. Smith is the Perfect Lady, who covers up her viciousness by layers of daubbed on gentility. Sarah Kindleberger as Mrs. Martin demonstrates...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: The Bald Soprano | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

...real life, one must look out of the window." In Ionesco, the glass is warped, so that the images are distorted, but they are real images nonetheless. The beauty of Ionesco is that through distortion of the images he is able to show the distortion of reality. The Hub production retains enough of the subtlety of Ionesco so that the reality is clear, but is absurd enough to make it funny. It's a nice blend...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: The Bald Soprano | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

...Minnie Magazine-who believes that her name derives from the Russian word for shop-is a member in good standing of our gang. Indiana-born, she studied sociology at the University of Evansville before joining TIME. For 19 years, she has been chief of the cable desk, our communications hub. Her office is the clearinghouse for the constant exchange between our New York City headquarters and TIME's correspondents and stringers in the field. Working in shifts 16 hours a day, seven days a week, Minnie and her ten assistants process 35 million words a month, making sure that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 4, 1971 | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

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