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...Evening consists of two courses: antipasto--"A Broadway Revue," and entree--"Trouble in Tahiti," an opera in seven scenes. The general success of the menu is due to the remarkable quality of its five major ingredients: Carol Flynn, Greg Smith, Mike Dineen, Peter Ives, and last--as befits the prima donna--Wendy Shattuck...
...certain periods, the Inquisition considered homoerotic activity as prima facie evidence of demonic possession. These good Christians also possessed effective therapies with which to exorcize sexual demons; however, rather than such clumsy jargon as "behavior modification," they (like the Gestapo) employed more forthright terms ... and methods...
...later "just to see how he liked it." She bullied the No. 10 staff, Haines claims, firing girls whom she found too poised or pretty as potential threats to her rule. Supremely jealous of rivals for influence with the Prime Minister, she so disrupted kitchen-cabinet luncheons with explosive prima donna exits that Wilson gave up attending them...
...REVIEW OF the circumstances of Brown-Beasley's and the superintendent's departures suggest a solid prima facie case against Harvard, although not necessarily on racial discrimination grounds. Take first the case of the B&G employee, Julian K. Fredie: arrested on July 27 for threatening a Radcliffe student, Fredie is suspended with pay. Two weeks later, shortly after his conviction on the criminal charge, Fredie resigns from his job at Harvard...
...Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, plays opposite her as Oscar Wolfe, the family's long-suffering theatrical manager, forever hoping to salvage some remnant of his sanity and his job out of the daily chaos of the Cavendish household. Julie Cavendish, the majestic daughter of Fanny and current prima donna of the theater, is played by Carole Shelley, with Leonard Frey as her brother Tony Cavendish, the impossible, flamboyant movie star who is obviously John Barrymore...