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The day's big upset came in the 60-yard high hurdles where Dartmouth sophomore Gordon Rule nosed out defending Heptagonal champion Tony Lynch. The winning time was 0:07.5.
Could this really be a congress of Italy's Communist Party? There sat the 1,200 local delegates, bourgeois and beaming, as their leader talked tolerantly of compromise with the capitalists and collaboration with the Catholics. But for a lonely little bust of Lenin on the podium and the...
Under Director Stuart Burge, the supporting cast is pallid. Frank Finlay's Iago is a meager adversary in all respects. Maggie Smith plays a resolute and poignant Desdemona, though her open, clear-eyed virtue ought to vindicate itself as easily as Iago's obvious machinations condemn him. As...
But they never do. In fact, when the house lights go down on a concert today, it is often the audience that strikes up the overture. It is a kind of barnyard symphonette. The Hummer and the Time Beater serve as the rhythm section; the Cellophane Crinkler and the Program...
It is not hard to see why the 19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs...