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...Vatican Rag...
...reminders of what old life there was like--make the passing of the Real Paper ealier this month all the more sad. After all, the Cambridge Phoenix, as it was first known, was the original "underground" paper in this city, a playful, political, very-angry-or-very-happy rag put out by people who thought rag was a fine description. If you were stopped at a red light, chances were a hawker would have been at your window peddling the paper for a quarter. Even after early 70s financial dealings too Byzantine to discuss created a new paper--The Real...
Harvard Square may come back--summer nights, dope and music, a little politics. If it ever does, it will again need a paper like the Realp, the old verslon. Every community needs a rag. But the Square may never return to its late 60s heyday, it may melt away before a wave of franchise pizzerlas and suburban money. In that case, the passing of the paper is just a poignant reminder of how things have changed. The Real Paper tried to change with its audience; perhaps to its credit, it couldn't keep...
Martins has relied on Balanchine's methods but used them creatively. Stravinsky's music marches and prances, waltzes and tangos; formal arrangements suddenly give way to the tinkling of rag time. The choreographer must somehow make the abrupt look fluid. Martins does so by keeping the transitions loose-limbed and larky. He registers a sudden shift in tempo by crooking this dancer's arm or sending that dancer into a modified shimmy. When the music turns Russian, the men magically assume the guise of Bolshoi dancers, arms folded, legs kicking. The whole interlude lasts perhaps 30 seconds...
...first-period shorthanded goal by Mark Switaj and a third-period power play goal by Mike Ewanouski boosted the Boston College Eagles to a rag-tag, 5-2 win over Boston University in the second game of the Beanpot last night at the Boston Garden...