Word: iras
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...tale of two teams this past weekend in Camden, N.J.While the Harvard varsity heavyweights relinquished their stranglehold on the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships, their lightweight counterparts took silver in a photo finish to end a season of struggle and turmoil on a positive note.Meanwhile, the second varsity heavyweight crew and the varsity straight four boat both captured national titles, giving the Crimson two gold medals on the weekend.HEAVYWEIGHTSThe last and best streak, at last, is over. For three consecutive years, the Harvard varsity heavyweights had turned Camden, into a one-boat show, dominating IRA competition and modifying...
...LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE A feared IRA terrorist loses his cat. Mayhem ensues. In his latest take on the casual perversity of the rural Irish character, Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West) comes closer to self-parody than is probably advisable, as the body count (well, body-part count) exceeds that of all his other plays put together. Still, it's a bravura black comedy that shows off one of the most original and seductive voices in theater today...
...their form? The title tune got to #8 on the hit parade, and two others, "Who Cares?" and "Love Is Sweeping the Country," still put a 2/4 spring in the step of many a geriatric. But the score was no succession of stand-alone ballads and dance tunes. Ira referred to the show as an operetta and, in the Gilbert and Sullivan mode, each song fits into the plot, advances the improbable story and fleshes out the characters, all the while parading its jazzy insouciance. Sometimes Ira can be just on the lyric side of lewd. In "Never...
...Broadway songs don't swing votes. Ira Gershwin discovered that when he rewrote his "Love Is Sweeping the Country" lyrics for Adlai Stevenson's noble but doomed 1952 campaign against Dwight D. Eisenhower. (A sample, from Kimball's The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin: "What a man for our future! / Equal him if you can. / Fearless attitudes / With no platitudes; / Inspirational - / He's sensational! / Adlai's sweeping the country! / America - here's your man!") But they can buoy spirits. Mel Brooks knows that, as do the Drowsy Chaperone team. All the 21st century fashioners of musical comedy are marching...
...lightweight co-captain Ashley Antony said. “Now there is an exciting chance to come in first that is fueling us.â€In 2004, after winning Eastern Sprints, the lightweights fell to Wisconsin and Princeton for the first time, and finished third at the IRAs. Last year, Radcliffe fell behind the Badgers and the Tigers at Sprints and the IRA nationals, placing third in the varsity eight in both events. The team will be looking to break this three-championship slide and vault its boat back to number one on Sunday.“It would...