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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind the scenes, however, Battle often lives up to her martial surname. Divas are expected to be difficult; opera lore is rife with tales of their devouring egos and overweening eccentricities -- not to mention the outrageous quirks of arrogant male singers, especially tenors. But Battle is, according to many who have worked with her, impossible. Fussy, erratic and arbitrary, the headstrong soprano has infuriated colleagues and administrators and crossed swords with functionaries and hapless hoteliers across the globe. The cast of The Daughter of the Regiment applauded when it was told during rehearsal that Battle had been fired...
...movie "Ferris, Bueller's Day Off," changing it to become his choice for AFARM's new motto: "We fight morality with lost of pluck, 'cause we're some students who like to..." To utilize and propagate the stereotype of the sex-obsessed perverted homosexual is offensive, not to mention somewhat ridiculous. It's pretty much a known fact that most students like to...and to think that either AFARM members, gay students or liberals are in the minority of people who like to...is much funnier than anything Lat said in his whole article...
...special task force chaired by Provost Jerry R. Green was formed months ago the conduct a comprehensive review of Harvard's benefits package. But if they had seen the data on the $52 million deficit, they didn't mention it to the Faculty Council, who first saw the figures on Wednesday...
...least, I call him Anecdote Man). Anecdote Man was already laying out plans in his head for his 40-minute segment: "I'll start with an exhaustive 30-second account of the history of baseball, then sprinkle in a little evolutionary history of the lungfish, then mention some arcane astronomical instrument in one of those unknown churches in the French countryside, and then give them all my two cents on Foucault. They'll be wowed, again. I know as much trivia as Cliff Clavin...
Shear Madness has been running continuously for ten years in Boston and has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running non-musical play in the country). It is playing simultaneously in six other American cities not to mention Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Budapest and Melbourne. The play relies on two gimmicks: setting the action in the city and year in which it is playing and populating it with local caricatures and spontaneous humor. These ideas keep the ten-year-old act from becoming dated, as recent events are constantly mentioned--everyone from Nancy Kerrigan...