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...versions in the U.S. and 22 other nations -- A Chorus Line epitomized the guts and glory of show business. As shaped by director-choreographer Michael Bennett, it pioneered new themes and forms in its candid portrayal of the backstage and personal lives of dancers and in its deceptively simple, quasi-documentary staging, which interwove an informal audition with razzmatazz performing...
...words protesting a violence against our community might alienate some none-too-bright readers. But any quasi-controversial result we may encounter is immeasurably better than the alternative you seem to naively suggest: our deaths at the hand of the editorial sword. Jarrett T. Barrios '90 Co-chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual Gay Lesbian Students Association
...most spectacularly in his 1984 setting of all 46 poems in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, a three-hour extravaganza that called for a rock band as well as a concert orchestra, plus three different choirs and nine soloists. The songs ranged from a haunting quasi-Renaissance madrigal to a smashing reggae finale. Bolcom should have won the Pulitzer Prize for that, but he came in second, then won it in 1988 for his 12 New Etudes for piano...
Once a backwater of the Federal Government, the Post Office Department was reorganized in 1970 as a semiprivate, quasi-military company called the U.S. Postal Service. With 825,000 employees, it has more troops than the U.S. Army. But pressure is growing from the public as the price of stamps goes up while service goes down, and hotshot new businesses like Federal Express demonstrate that a letter can absolutely, positively get there overnight. The Postal Service has had to automate to move more than 160 billion pieces of mail a year with ever greater efficiency. New machines have reduced handling...
...legal question, the Massachussets Commission Against Discrimination, a quasi-judicial body, will decide whether the clubs should be required to admit women. As a philosophical question, final clubs will always be debated and never resolved. But as a practical question, the solution for students is obvious: Males and females should boycott the clubs...