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WHAT CAN one really say about Harvey, that good old adorable 1940s comedy about a rich, eccentric family whose bachelor uncle thinks he sees a giant rabbit? This play is it--the absolute warhorse of warhorses, a cuddly, cute and utterly innocuous script which hit its peak 30 years ago with a Jimmy Stewart movie and has since been relegated to the position of favored stand-by for a hundred thousand suburban high schools...
...look at a phenomenon in a community, it will be shaped something like a bell curve," Postel said. "That weekend just happened to be the peak of the curve," he said...
...must-win turned into a dustin', and pushed Harvard (4-1 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) into a second-place Ivy logjam with Cornell, Penn and Princeton, all a half game behind Brown (3-1 Ivy). The Bruins climbed to the Ivy peak with a 23-15 upset Saturday of previously undefeated Cornell...
...said Barry Bryant, a retail analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert. "This is a decline that leaves you gasping." Only a month ago Gap Inc., owner of the Gap, GapKids and the Banana Republic clothing chains, had been one of the stock market's highest flyers. But from an August peak of 77 7/8, the stock sank to 37 early last week, down 52%. That included a 10 1/4-point drop last Monday alone...
Cosby emerged at the peak of the 1960s civil rights ferment, and he was unique among black comedians of the time (such as Dick Gregory and Godfrey Cambridge) in not using race as a subject. That was not always the case, however. "Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started," recalls Cosby. "But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge...