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...Cambridge City Council began its fight to win relief from Proposition 2 1/2-induced cuts in local property taxes Monday, sending a raft of requests for new taxes and exemptions to the state legislature...
DIED. Raoul Walsh, 93, prolific movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...
Despite the fact that the aquawomen played musical events with the lineup--most swimmers competing in their second-and third-best events--the afternoon featured a raft of excellent performances from the Crimson, including seven individual victories from freshman Debbie Zimic, and sophomores Terri "Tune" Frick and Kathleen McCloskey...
DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...
...success. How many students at Harvard sit for hours dreamily recording who they sat with at lunch, what everyone said and how they felt about it, as the character Lee, played by Linda Stafford, does? If they do, then they deserve more to be entered in the Adams House raft race and floated down the Charles River than to be enshrined on the stage. One reason for Lee's failure at times as a character lies probably in the purposefully disjointed nature of the production, which must sacrifice the possibility of bringing depth and sensitivity to a complex role...