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...Boheme, sung in a flip, funny new English version by Lyricist David Spencer, is no Pirates-sized smash, but its opening night last week, in Papp's tiny Anspacher Theater, was a modest, almost bashful, success. This is petit opera, not grand, but there is a clear gain in warmth and intimacy at the level of drama. The singers use body mikes instead of heroic rib cages and Pavarottal diaphragms, but they are young and good-looking, and they have no trouble seeming appropriately broke and love-sopped (nor in delivering Spencer's sometimes jarring lines...
...birth by inducing an abortion. The laws of accepted behavior repressed the guilt and violent anger this realization aroused, dividing the girl's mind and setting her natural emotions at odds with the dictates of strict moral and social codes. Repression begun at home found reinforcement in Roman Catholicism, petit bourgeois convention, and French society as a whole. Slowly, painfully, an older reflecting narrator comes to terms with her past; only in middle age can she begin to shake off the constrictions of family, religion, and class...
...National Cancer Institute. Now he wants the Government to provide an extra $100 million in each of the next five years for work on the disease. "You know, I lost my wife Mildred to cancer in 1979," he says quietly. "Last month I spoke at a wake for Don Petit of my staff, who died of cancer in Florida. A woman on my staff is suffering from bone cancer and was told she'll probably never be able to walk again. Well, we've got to do more to try to stop this disease...
...characters modern idiosyncrasies and sympathies. Masha's idiotic husband, Kulygin (Richard Grusin), says bumblingly to anyone who says a kind word about his wife. "Yes, of course, you're absolutely right. I love her very much, Masha. She's very nice." Masha calls her hated sister-in-law a "petit bourgeois bitch...
...that Brown has for Harvard when it comes to athletic competition plays a part in that record, certainly. It's not just football, either. Whenever the Harvard hockey team takes the same ice as the Bruins, bad times are guaranteed, especially when ECAC Dirty Player of the Year Darrell Petit is taking a shift. Last year's game at Bright Center was delayed for close to 15 minutes when a brawl broke out in front of the Harvard bench just before the close of the first period...