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...attire ranging from blue jeans and a t-shirt to a tuxedo and pink bow tie, about 80 History and Literature concentraters yesterday climbed the steps to Burr Hall to turn in two semesters worth of blood, sweat and tears in the form of their senior theses...
ANOTHER MAJOR disappointment also mars the performance. At the start of the show, a pink-clad troubadour emerges from a fanfare and a see of light. He holds up a scroll-like banner, announcing the name of the next skit. The house lights blacken, and seconds later Marceau, dressed in his far less elaborate white costume, poses in readiness on the exact spot that the troubadour held. How does he make this miraculous switcheroo? The audience finds out at intermission, when the Marceau look-alike troubadour comes out to take a bow with his boss...
...greets him. The Maryland marble of which it is constructed has a special quality that picks up the light of the hour and seems to subtly intensify it. "There it is," Williams says to himself, and then he studies the graceful shape to see what shades of gold or pink or gray are mixed in the coming...
...barkers used to murmur softly on the streets of Kabuki-cho, Tokyo's red-light district. "She'll show you everything!" No more. Responding to the cries of outraged citizens' groups and local businesses, the Japanese government cracked down last week on adult or, in the Japanese term, "pink" entertainment. Among the new regulations: all pink neon out by midnight, no more come-ons from bar girls, no new massage parlors in restricted areas, no new love hotels near schools or libraries. And no lewd barkers...
...restaurants, sushi shops and fast-food outlets. The first police patrol of the area after the crackdown booked only 27 offenders, mainly for soliciting, keeping a restricted business open after hours or permitting minors on the premises. One barker was unfazed. "Politicians and police think they can stamp out pink," he said, "but it all has to go somewhere --someplace darker and dirtier...