Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours after King Faisal's death, his successor was installed as Saudi Arabia's fourth monarch. In a large, incense-filled hall in Riyadh's royal palace, princes and Cabinet ministers, religious leaders and Bedouin chiefs gathered for the ceremony of mubaya 'a to kiss King Khalid 's face and shoul der and swear allegiance to him. Soldiers and bodyguards in red-and-white kaffiyehs held back the crowd; at one point, the new King thrust himself into the throng to lead forward a blind old man who had come to greet...
...they were supposed to be more scholarly than George Reyes, who regularly earns Group III grades; who did not take lecture notes when he first came to Harvard because it seemed unnecessary; and who has not once in four years gone to a professor's office hours (and resents "kiss-ass" students who do go only to win points by asking impressive questions...
...will probably finish the thesis, though, because he wants to prove something by writing it. Since coming to Harvard, Reyes has felt academically inadequate, as though "I couldn't compete adequately with the folks here." Not just the "kiss-ass" folks who regularly attend professors' office hours, but also those who do well without much work...
DENNIS CROWLEY's and David Thomas's music is less likely to bring you to your feet, I guess, It's an eclectic as it should be--the first-act finale is vaguely reminiscent of "Another Opening, Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate, and I'm told there's also a direct quotation from an all but totally obscure pre-Gilbert opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan--but the tunes aren't very memorable, and O'Donnell's lyrics ("We're not exactly in Utopia. Our queen could scarcely be dopier") don't seem up to the rest of his script...
Krag was eating dinner at Jordan K one night last spring when the musical director of Kiss Me Kate began to complain about his accompanist, who wasn't any good. Krag "jumped at the chance" to accompany the musical and pretty soon was showing up for every rehearsal, an unheard of thing for an accompanist to do. That led to an offer for the next fall to be associate music director with John Posner for Fiorello!, a Grant-In-Aid production, which led to an offer this spring from the Gilbert and Sullivan board, to be music director of Princess...