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Described as "strong and silent" by center Sam Jensen, Harvard right guard Mike Pascucci let loose recently when the Crimson's caliber wasn't up to par...
...PRODUCTION of theatrical lese majeste par excellence, this Taming of the Shrew is rich in intelligence and little strokes of genius, and wildly short of a unifying vision. The key dichotomy is between the feminist intent and the burlesque setting. Burlesque and Shakespearean comedy are close in many ways, and sometimes the technical devices have been successfully transplanted. But the spirit of burlesque is completely antithetical to McDonough's tragicomic conception of the Shakespeare work...
Such adventures, however, are par for the course for Marsden, who for 16 years has been responsible for the world-wide alert of professional and amatcur astronomers about unusual astronomical occurrences...
...everything has been rosy this year. Despite the appointment of American Conductor Christopher Keene as music director in 1982, the conducting on the whole remains below par, and neither of the principal singers in Lakmé had the proper French timbre or sense of style for their roles. Sweeney Todd is more gruesomely appealing in a smaller house, and the City Opera's lead cast does nothing to erase the memory of George Hearn and Angela Lansbury...
...cannot help but admire Talbott for his obvious concern about nuclear weapons, for his intelligence, for his grasp of the issues, and not least for his keen and conscientious attention to the importance of individuals in foreign policy negotiation. Deadly Gambits will clearly enter the history books on a par with such works as Robert I. Kennedy '40's account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and George F. Kennan's writings on containment. But this dual account of the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) suffers critically from an almost exclusive focus...