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EVERY EVENING this week at the Loeb, upwards of 40 talented people have convened to pour their creative energies down a bottomless pit. As usual, weeks of work show their traces in the intricate movement of scenes, the well-targeted snap of dance steps, the synchronized sparkle of line delivery and reaction. The complex mainstage machinery rises and whirs, the orchestra thumps away, the presentation flows. But the pit yawns, and engulfs the actors' sparkle, and remains bottomless, for theirs is the most pitifully misguided endeavor the Harvard stage has witnessed in many moons...
...hoped that Joan Rivers will some day lean so far over the mud pit from which she extracts her egregious material that she will topple in and be heard from nevermore...
...years ago a judge pointed to the easy morals of the community in declining to punish former University of New Mexico Coach Norm Ellenberger for fraud in the name of recruiting. The Lobos' gym lent to the N.C.A.A. for this occasion, the Final Four, is known as "the Pit...
Houston, Louisville, North Carolina State and Georgia went into the Pit on a Saturday afternoon for the semifinals of the 48-team tournament, No. 1 Houston and No. 2 Louisville presumably to play for a national championship, N.C. State and Georgia apparently to try on each other's glass slipper. If the ball cannot be kicked through a goal post, the game is not for Georgia. N.C. State, while a basketball school sure enough, lost ten games this year, five times as many as Houston, more than any eventual champion in history. State's 67-60 success against...
...that playground of the New World: the Caribbean. Sadly, in recent years less enticing images have begun to intrude. They show thick plumes of exhaust spilling from new oil refineries; bubbling, dark cesspools of untreated wastes only a hop away from beaches jammed by tourists; mountainsides scarred by open-pit mining and hardscrabble agricultural plots. The vacation paradise now faces the spread of environmental blight at an alarming rate...