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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quartet showed up, boasting a female--Charlotte (Chatzie) Kirk. Huddling in dressing room 9H4 of the RCA building, the CRIMSON squad quickly deduced that Miss Kirk could not be a legitimate Yalie, because Yale has as yet admitted no girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, YALE DRAW 29-29 TIE FOR IVY CHAMPIONSHIP | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

...Head. After a well-conceived opening sequence, its humor descends well beneath that of The Monkees' TV show, despite the implications of one of the most calculated publicity campaigns in recent memory. The quartet have mercifully honored us with only five songs, indistinguishable from one another with the exception of The Porpoise Song which has been on the radio for 41/2 months. The director plainly aspires to TV commercials and thinks he's got a line on how to be Richard Lester. He's mistaken. The film's distinguishing trait is its unbelievable paranoia: the plotless action has The Monkees...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Head | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

...script beneath the pictures reads like one of John Lennon's semiliterate Joycean pastiches. Flabby punjabs pass for wit ("Are you bluish? You don't look bluish"), and the boys' voyage is filled with stilted symbolism. In one scene, the quartet passes by the Sea of Phrenology, where huge heads of Moses, Cicero, Freud and Einstein loom; John recalls that a fellow named Ulysses also went on a journey. Ultimately, however, what is wrong with the film is the Beatles. They are not in it. Except for the songs and a final sequence in which they appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Trip | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Meet the quartet which will represent the CRIMSON: In the left seat, David E. Gordon '69, associate business manager, who had prepared by studying philosophy and baseball through five straight all-nighters, and managed a top score even though he slept through half the questioning period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime-Heads Grilled for College Bowl | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

...could it be called a sculpture, be cause it involved four human beings, seated to form a square on a white-painted floor of a white room in Manhattan's Architectural League. Nevertheless, there was no denying that the scene had an eerie visual unity; joining the quartet was a strip of red silk acetate, 24 ft. long and 12 in. wide. It had been sewed into a square with a loop at each corner, and each loop fitted onto the head of a participant. Title of the work: Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Psychosculpture | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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