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...halftime high spirits permitted enough chicanery to liven up a rather dull football game, and give the busy Hanover police another headache. A particularly noisy section of Cantabrigians, sitting close to the field at the 50 yard line, bribed and cajoled a staggering Leverett House sophomore into doing an unrehearsed dance routine with the Dartmouth band at midfield. He tried it a second time, only to be decked by a wayward tuba...
What's this? Sultry Cher, with smoking eyebrows, dressed in chrome jeans? With green hair, holding a mercury ball? Indeed. To liven up the opening sequence of Cher's TV show this season, the producers hired Rollin Binzer, Jim Benedict and Leslie Brooks, three film makers who call themselves Kid Millions. Using photographs of their subject, the three painted on Daliesque wardrobes, added laser lights to create an eerie effect, and built a 58-second animated lead-in to the program. "I love it," announced the star after watching the first screening. "The only trouble is, it will...
...increase hitting, which would liven the game, attract more fans and produce more profit, Finley also wants to see batters walked on three balls instead of four. "Just think about the disadvantage the batter has," he says. "In football, there are eleven guys playing eleven guys, in basketball five against five. Not in baseball. We've got nine fielders out there against one batter. We've got to give the batter help...
...celebration, say, or the Kirkland House dinner two years ago at which Smithies gave President Bok a long, pointed introduction, replete with references to "the days when the University was interested in education--before the present administration took office." ("These occasions can get very stolid if you don't liven 'em up a bit," Smithies explains now. "I think one ought to be mildly provocative--what do you think...
Allende has not yet applied for a liven, but no problems are anticipated by the State Department, Elizabeth Haggarty, a State Department spokesman, said yesterday...