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...rudimentary civilization: a partially excavated fast-food restaurant with the French fries still intact. An inflatable cathedral is invented for tourists who want a distinguished setting at a moment's notice. The secret of the Pyramids is revealed: the ancient Egyptians wanted to sharpen their giant razor blades. Macaulay, a prizewinning children's book author and illustrator, likes to turn things upside down-literally: his Arc de Defeat is only an arc de triomphe on its back. But his best work is a surreal anachronism that demands a double take, like the group of men on a plain...
...been heard ("I have had enough criticism as a performer," he says). But like Liszt, he writes for the piano as if it were an orchestra, aiming for as much drama and depth as possible. One work, A Picture of Dorian Gray (he admires Oscar Wilde's "razor-like mind"), is more than two hours long. As for what might have been, he says quietly, "I would have done the same so-called mistakes." Then he smiles. "And there have been great moments...
Greg Kirsch also dropped a singles match for the Crimson with a straight-sets loss at six, but perhaps the greatest disappointment of the day came at number three, where Scott Walker lost his third consecutive razor-close match...
Three, the razor-thin margin of victory confirms President Giscard d'Estaing's intuition about the need above all to enlarge the Majority by a reformist course that would attract voters from the Left, and perhaps even the Socialist Party itself some day. But Chirac opposes this strategy, which, if it succeeded, would dilute Gaullist influence in the Majority; and while the Gaullists no longer dominate it, as they had since 1962, they still have just over half of its seats...
Seeded one after a 5-0 whitewash over MIT March 25, the Crimson marched through the pairings with a first-round bye, a second-round shutout of Swarth-more, a razor-thin victory over tough Rutgers in the semifinals, and a relatively easy win over Princeton in the championship finals...