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...dollop of dancing. Virtually every word of dialogue MacLaine speaks is about herself, and that is just as she intends it: "Philosophically, celebrating myself is what I am into." Apart from her one-liners, there is one highly effective if overlong joke: she sings a Harold Arlen medley while the conductor and orchestra, supposedly influenced by the ghosts of George and Ira Gershwin, for whom the theater is named, keep bursting in with Gershwin themes. MacLaine manages to find a wistful, slightly torchy quality in one unlikely number, If I Only Had a Brain from The Wizard...
...parent and the consequent yearning to define and understand the past; the urge to turn over a ream of new leaves and the inability to change a single bad habit; the fear of mortality and the resulting impulse toward adolescent excess. Merely as a balancing act, the medley of tones would be impressive...
...English High School in Nahant, Costin was a high school All-American and three time state champion in the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard individual medley. She was also New England and Region I champ in those two events, plus the 100-yard individual medley, and was the AAU record holder in all three...
This unfriendly atmosphere was highlighted on Friday with the controversial disqualification of Lars Reierson in the 400-yd individual medley. The freshman's eighth-place finish would have kept Harvard within 10 points of the lead Instead, the aquamen fell to third place (after leading at the end of Thursday's events), three points behind Brown and 21 points behind the Tigers, who had taken advantage of the day's events to assume the lead...
...performance in the 400-yd IM. For Harvard, senior Mike Miao won the 200-yd, freestyle in 1:39.10 and was followed in third-place by Co-Captain Courtney Roberts's 1:40,45. Sophomore Peter Egan came in third in the 400-yd. IM and the 400-yd, medley relay of Dan Simkowitz. Reierson, Bill McCloskey, and Miao placed fifth to set up the showdown today and tonight...