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Police also said they arrested a Belmont man after he allegedly robbed a Harvard student at knife poi any ate Friday night outside UHS. The victim said he was on the ramp outside the building when Jeffrey Tholand, 18, allegedly approached him with a knife and said, "Up against the wall and give me that," referring to the student's wallet...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Two Students Assaulted On Cambridge Common | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

Waldorf, who said he was arrested at 4:45 a.m. on the corner of Mt. Auburn and De Wolfe Sts., is suspected of attempting to steal a car and threatening two passersby with a knife, according to his attorney, Robert Glass...

Author: By Emily J.M. Knowlton, | Title: Sophomore Arraigned On Auto Theft, Assault Charges | 11/20/1984 | See Source »

Belle-Linda Halpern, who plays Charlotte Corday, the fiery young woman who stabs Marat to death is at the same time a groggy somnambulist who can barely wield a knife: she shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic, Halpern's performance is haunting. Christopher Moore is the "lucky paranoiac" who gets to play Marat. Suffering from a skin disease, the feeble and pinched looking Marat crouches in a bathtub. His fervent speeches sound simultaneously noble and pathetic as he bleats them in a madman's wavering voice. Although...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

...Trollope came to write The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), she was scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth, and the still more frightful manner of cleaning the teeth afterwards with a pocket knife." Charles Dickens, in his American Notes, deplored the national pastime of chewing tobacco, spitting toward spittoons, and often missing-"odious practices . . . most offensive and sickening . . . an exaggeration of nastiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...that sounds corny, but somehow Olden makes Piper genuine and likeable. Even pulling is knife or punching out his shrink, Olden looks more troubled and pensive than simply angry and resentful. Too young and too untouched by the Francis Ford Coppola idol maker crowd to play the latest Matt Dillon or Poster of the Week, Olden acts and acts well...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: One From the Gross-Out School | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

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