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...sides of the audience. The current Loeb production does not quite secreate Prince's arena, since director George Hamlin felt it would inhibit the view of some parts of the audience in several scenes. But Derek McLane, the set designer, has replaced a number of seats with a huge pit, in which the audience sits on benches and on the floor, and has also created a number of platforms connected by ramps. To label Candide a musical seems inadequate; to term it "theatrical carnival" is more accurate...
...wanted to change the orientation of the association away from merely assessing athletic issues as they related to Harvard blacks and undertake a community oriented program," Jackson said during a brief pit-stop for dinner at Lowell House. Add those hopes to Jackson's personal desire (as a former high school boxer at Fordham Prep in New York City) to "bring boxing back to Harvard," and you have the ingredients that produced tonight's fundraiser for the Boston chapter of the Leukemia Society. (Three dollar tickets are available at the door or at 60 Boylston...
Wellston, Ohio, a town of 6,000, 75 miles southeast of Columbus, is short on cash and long on potholes; about 10,000 of them pit Wellston's 44 miles of streets. When former Police Chief Max Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came...
Richmond and classmate Abby Meiselman--in large part--shoulder the responsibility (or blame) for coach Peter Felske's decision to pit Harvard against the most talented group of opponents the team has ever faced...
Although Stiles laughs at the number of "head cases in vaulting;" he has performed "Junior Birdman routines" on occasions when the pole slipped and he back-flipped into the pit...