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...MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (CBS). Oliver Sacks' neurological case study of a failing mind and a stalwart heart comes to vibrant operatic life in Michael Nyman's deft minimalist setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 17, 1988 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...number-two doubles, Harvard Captain Cyndy Austrian and Kathy Mulvehal captured the first set, 6-4, over Lisa Nyman and Matha Leggat. The Crimson duo led the second set, 6-5, but Nyman and Leggat rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Nab Sixth-Straight Ivy Title | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...senior cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Wertheimer, while Jack Farrell wasted little time in destroying Nyman, 6-1, 6-1, sealing the Ivy title for the Crimson...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Nab Sixth-Straight Ivy Title | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...Mordecai Richler's brash comic novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Composer Salzman's Stauf, an anagrammatical updating of the Faust legend co-written by Michael Sahl. The highlights, though, were The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a moving minimalist meditation by British Composer Michael Nyman based on a case history in Neurologist Oliver Sacks' best seller, and Harry Partch's 1959 Revelation in the Courthouse Park, a quirky blending of Euripides and Elvis Presley, scored for an unorthodox orchestra and set to a musical scale with 43 tones instead of the normal twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Elvis Meets the Bacchae In Philadelphia, two new musicals - or are they really operas? | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Other impressive singles victories for the Crimson came from freshman Christina Dragomirescu--a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Tanya Stasiuk--and sophomore Kathy Mulvehal, who won 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 against Lisa Nyman...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Netwomen Nab Ivy Title Again | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

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