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Myth 3: Harvard is a veritable Garden of Diversity, through which young Adams and Eves can romp in diverse ways, playing with many diverse animals and eating diversely delicious foods...
...CHAMPAGNE and toast Lisbon's Teatro Politeama. The once shabby 795-seat theater has been delightfully done over, and is now the ornate showplace for Portugal's first homegrown musical. To the Portuguese, who daily see new headlines about political corruption, Damned Cocaine (Maldita Cocaina) is less madcap romp than pointed satire. The Roaring Twenties return, with characters modeled on colorful real-life denizens of that era, and the setting is Maxim's, then a well-known Lisbon night spot. Through its doors parade a fascist army general with an eye for beautiful women, a count who has gambled away...
According to witnesses, the streakers entered the dining hall wearing trench coats, stripped and began their revealing romp around the dining hall, shocking the peaceful eaters...
Despite years of worthy work, LaChiusa was a virtual unknown until a couple of months ago, when his equally imaginative First Lady Suite opened a too brief run off-Broadway. That collage featured a time-traveling romp in which Mamie Eisenhower caught her husband with a mistress, then journeyed with Marian Anderson to watch Ike integrate Little Rock, Arkansas; an eerie dream song in which a secretary to the Kennedys envisioned, on her way to the fateful motorcade in Dallas, the events about to unfold; and a wing-walking scene in which Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lover, Lorena Hickok, bemoaned...
...undermine the exhibition, because it aims precisely to illustrate the tenor of Danish art in the nineteenth century, even through its less inspirational phases. However, such an aim does not provide sufficient focus for an exhibit, even on a relatively modest scale. The collection appears electric, a higgledy-piggledy romp through an era of artistic flux and diversity. The viewer does not find Danish painting surprisingly good or bad; he gleans no insight into the Danish national character; he observes no quintessentially Danish traits--in short, he detects no common thread uniting the canvases beyond the passports of the authors...