Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maggi-Meg Reed superbly plays the wisecracking chorus girl who takes Ruby under her wing (a resemblance to Joan Blondell certainly helps). The chorus-girl's argumentative romance with yet another sailor (Frank Pastor) makes Ruby's saccharine affair a little less cloying. Although conducted in a duet which dreamily imitates the worst of Cole Porter, Mona Kent's seduction of the wealthy Captain injects some welcome opportunism into an otherwise hopelessly unworldly world. Goodness prevails, but, gratifyingly, even the selfish end up happy in Dames...
...game opened with an immediate, if somewhat sluggish Harvard press deep into the Yale zone. Before the Elis gained control of the ball, Crimson co-captain Sue St. Louis, playing her last game in a Harvard uniform, placed a perfect crossing pass in front of freshman striker Joan Elliott, who directed the ball into the net and sent Yale goalie Angie Harris sprawling...
North Carolina picked up the pace and at the 30-minute mark, one of their forwards streaked through the Harvard defense, and beat Judge one-on-one on an excellent shot. But the Crimson bounced back again, as Ferrante slid a pass to freshman back striker Joan Elliott, who promptly put it in the net at 43:12 for a 2-all halftime...
Harvard turned up the tempo and at 33:56, Sue St. Louis blasted a beautiful shot from a long way out, over the out-stretched hands of leaping Cortland goalie Joan Schockow and in, to cut the Cortland advantage to 2-1, but the Crimson could do no more than look to the consolation game...
...Flutist James Galway. having piped himself on with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many more revelers: Joan Mondale, New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Walter Cronkite, Zubin Mehta, Lady Bird Johnson, Sarah Caldwell, Burt Reynolds et several...