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Historically, the movie actors who have got the most out of acting gay have been those who have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...
...PRESTON, CONN.--Ever hear the old wives' tale that everything bad comes in threes...
Well, for the Radcliffe varsity crew team yesterday, everything came in twos, as the heavyweight varsity eight and the lightweight varsity four both placed second and lost by two seconds in their respective Eastern Sprints races on Lake Waramaug in New Preston...
Dealing with the postal crunch will be a formidable job for Anthony Frank, 56, who became Postmaster General this month. He replaced Preston Tisch, who returned to the management of Loews Corp. Frank, a former chairman of San Francisco's First Nationwide Financial Corp., has already jumped to the defense of the Postal Service, pointing out that the "magnitude of the task is just beyond belief." As for the higher rates, even critics concede that U.S. postal service is cheap compared with that of other countries. Mailing a letter in West Germany, for example, costs 48 cents, while the price...
Scholars participating in the working groups include Harvard Divinity School Professor of Theology Preston N. Williams, Amherst College Professor David W. Willis, and University of Paris Professor Genevieve Fabre and Queens College Professor Melvin Dixon...