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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good team play, along with an exceptional performance by co-captain Glenn Fine (12 assists, seven in the first half), led the Harvard five to a 42-37 halftime bulge. Shooting well above the season average from the floor (53 per cent) and the line (8-for-8), Harvard looked to be on its way to a much sought-after victory as the teams broke for the dressing rooms...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Cagers Bow to Huskies, 81-61 | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...during the rest of the movie. Whatever fear there is in this comes from predictability and inevitability, not surprise. The real surprise is the critical reaction. How ironic that so many of the critics who find in this movie a condemnation of '70s conformity are falling in line behind Pauline Kael's grossly irresponsible rave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...Black Star Theatre will be casting roles for Melanctha, a dance drama adapted from the story by Gertrude Stein. The title character is a mulatto woman; the play traces her relationships with a black doctor, two black women, and various whites in her community. Using the basic plot-line of the story, the adaption attempts to translate the rhythm of Stein's writing into actual dance and musical rhythm. The producers welcome anyone, inexperienced as well as experienced. Tonight and tomorrow, again at the Loeb, starting...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Up in Arms and Out to Lunch | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...cast and crew of Not Necessarily In That Order are doing their bit to banish the reading period blues. They are reviving this revue for two performances and "for all the people who didn't get to see it" during the original run. The title is the punch line of a thousand old jokes, but every skit and song in this comedy revue is original. Andy Borowitz (book and lyrics), Fred Barton (music) and their five-person cast hope to recreate the original evenings of "unbridled fun." To create an informal nightclub atmosphere, director Borowitz has kept the staging simple...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Up in Arms and Out to Lunch | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...this intellectual dilly-dallying left the actual story line in woeful shape. Particularly in Gotterdammerung, there are major inconsistencies--most spectacularly, it seems the gods who expire in a blaze of flame and music at the very end need not perish at all, since the ring which had doomed them is back in the hands of its rightful owners...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Vaguely Wagner | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

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