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Some of the best and most interesting theater on campus came from outside the College. A troupe of Irish university student actors began their American tour by treating Harvard audiences to strong, unorthodox performances of four plays by modern Irish dramatists, including J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
...game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
This election, however, there is every reason to think this voting bloc is up for grabs. Evangelical territory isn't necessarily a Republican bastion--born-again Jimmy Carter carried it handily in 1976 (despite his interview with Playboy Magazine and his pro-choice, pro-ERA platform). And Michael Dukakis should carry it, too--especially if he intends to make headway in the South...
...divine that sex was the apple that lured Jimmy Swaggart from his cushy Eden atop the garbage heap of televangelists. After all, Swaggart not only called his fellow philanderer Jim Bakker a cancer, but he also led the battle to coerce convenience stores into removing Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves...
...unspeakable things performed with a bedside trumpet. All this was allegedly borne upon a flood tide of cocaine, Dom Perignon and money. The whole sordid story appears anew in Roxanne's latest attempt to cash in on her notoriety (previous ventures included posing nude, for $70,000, for Playboy). Readers in search of easy, sleazy entertainment, however, are in for a surprise. The narrative is shot through with the pain of any marital breakup, especially when small children are involved, and emerges as a feminist cautionary tale about the futility of devoting one's life to pleasing others. With pitiable...