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...from 19th century novels and both end with haunting cries on behalf of the dispossessed. Nickleby was story theater, narrating its tale as much as acting it out, and using relatively simple sets, lights and costumes. Les Miserables is lavish, with turntables rotating iron gates, marble pillars and big makeshift barricades. Nickleby told of virtue rewarded and villainy punished, while Les Miserables depicts a world less blessed with moral order. But whether or not Les Miserables can match Nickleby's commercial impact, it is extraordinarily ambitious and exciting. Its complex story unfolds with clarity and urgent speed, although at times...
...female fashion model in a leather outfit struts down a makeshift runway in the auditorium at Roscoe Pound Hall. She sports a Russian-style cap terned with sparkles that spell out the afternoon's motif: "trendy...
...biggest stumbling block may be that the team's home--the Indoor Athletic Building--will not be ready for the beginning of the season. As a result, the spikers will have to contend with makeshift courts in Briggs Athletic Center...
...House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes ran interference for his boss, fending off media flak as conditions deteriorated in South Africa. It was Speakes, along with State Department Spokesman Charles Redman, who spearheaded the major development of the month, a new offensive against the Soviet Union. In a makeshift press room, the Administration's mouthpiece announced U.S. plans to test an anti-satellite weapon and charged that Soviet agents have used a toxic dust to track American diplomats in Moscow...
...biggest stumbling block may be that the team's home--the Indoor Athletic Building--will not be ready for the beginning of the season. As a result, the spikers will have to contend with makeshift courts in Briggs Athletic Center...