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Among the performers at the 118-year-old theater were: Stephen Drury '77, Randall Hodgkinson, Igor Kipnis '52, Robinson Professor of the Humanities Robert D. Levin '68, Christopher Taylor '92, Luise Vosgerchian and a number of undergraduates...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Harvard Pianists Celebrate Sanders Theatre Restoration | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...Lady) and Thomas Hardy (Jude, as in The Obscure). The film industry has always loved the classics: they're pedigreed, they're passionate, they're public domain. But a few long-dead writers must have great agents--they get their names in the title. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALL PREVIEW | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...cigarette habit, it seems superfluous that Italian researchers have tried to duplicate this condition in rats [HEALTH, July 29]. Millions of lives could have been saved if we had heeded the observations of thoracic surgeons instead of relying on the effect of tobacco smoke on other species. BINA ROBINSON, Director Citizens for Planetary Health Swain, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters:: Aug. 19, 1996 | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...very first day of the Games, David Robinson, the dignified Dream Teamer, was asked if the rest of the world was growing less awestruck of the American professionals. Yes, he said, "and our job is to re-create that awe." Carl Lewis did that in Atlanta, and Michael Johnson, and Alexei Nemov, and Deng Yeping. All Atlanta, no stranger to reconstruction, set about making the wonder feel young again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GAMES TRIUMPHANT | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...women of the 100 also have a rich history, dating back to Amsterdam in '28, when a 16-year-old from Riverdale, Illinois, Betty Robinson, won the race--the very first track event for women--with a time of 12.2 sec. What made Robinson's victory so remarkable was that the Olympics was only her fourth track meet. The 1932 winner was Stanislawa Walasiewicz of Poland, who was better known in the U.S., her second country, as Stella Walsh. According to an official, Walsh ran "with long, manlike strides." The reason for that became clear some 48 years later when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD RUSH | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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