Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swirls and taps about a musical within a musical, featuring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse as two cool professionals who warm up like toaster coils in the course of the production. Jack Buchanan, as the director, is a portrait in Orson Welles-like pomposity and does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette...
...Crimson led, 4-3, as the match went down to the last two doubles contests. With the third doubles locked up in a neck-and-neck third set, the second doubles match entered a third-set tiebreacker...
Kevin Shaw and Scott Walker went up, 3-2, on Jack Cobetto and Brad Dressler, needing to take but two of the last four points to nail down the win. The Elis had other plans, as they swiped three straight points to tie team match at 4-all, then brought home the bacon by winning at number three...
Yale, beaten only by Princeton so far, thinks it can win the match...
Despite the unfavorable odds, Harvard is psyched to win the match as well...