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NUMBAH ONE (from pidgin English) means the best. NUMBAH TEN, until recently, meant the absolute worst. As the war has grown more arduous, NUMBAH TEN THOU' has come to describe a man or a circumstance 1,000 times worse than numbah ten, if possible-and far worse than MICKEY MOUSE, a versatile expression that labels an activity superfluous, unheroic, fouled up, or all three...
...Hall to read of the proposed hike in room and board for Radcliffe. Not that we are totally out to ruin the Cliffie image of soiled hair et al., but we have been without hot water for three weeks--except at odd hours of the early morning. This has meant lukewarm washings of dinner dishes as well, which does nothing for the desirability of our meals. Before the college seeks to rectify the deficit in its budget, it should perhaps consider the inferior "room and board" it is now giving its students at the high price they are paying. Third...
...held on Dec. 19 between DeGaulle and Francois Mitterrand, the Socialist candidate who finished behind DeGaulle and ahead of Jean Lecanuet, a young moderate who calls himself the French Kennedy. Lecanuet was credited with having kept from DeGaulle the crucial five per cent of the vote which would have meant election...
...Amanda, Andrea Levinger never dominates the stage the way she is meant to despite her skillful use of the postures and phrases of the former Southern gentlewoman. She should be a grand figure, sweeping her son and daughter out of her path: but in this production she is only bitter, and their deference to her seems uncalled...
Though written for radio, Under Milk Wood surely deserves live public performance; yet, I would have thought it obvious that "a play for voices" is meant to be heard and not seen. Well, if it wasn't earlier this week, it should be now. By adding physical movement to his Dunster-East House production, director Walter Licht has only distracted from the poetry of Dylan Thomas's prose. His player's go through superfluous panto-mines of their words, freeze in awkward tableaux, and speak an appalling number of lines from halfway up the aisle...