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...Story Theater, Director Paul Sills and his enviably talented company have set this mirror on the stage and its reflecting images constitute a hilarious allegorical romp. Story Theater is a mode of dramatic presentation as well as a title. The idea is to illustrate texts, usually myths, legends and folk tales, with a limited use of words. Sills, a co-founder of Chicago's Second City Company, calls it "ways of speaking with your body." In this production, largely drawn from Grimm's fairy tales, the stories follow a straight narrative line, but veer off at every other...
...Early this month, I met my freshman roommate in front of Kirkland House, and we began talking about the usual things. Our discussion turned to football. I told him that the Leverett House tackle football team was going to romp over the Kirkland team, his House squad. "Are you kidding?" he said incredulously. "We were the champions last year and you're not going to beat...
...Yorker spent a year here doing research for his book. It was originally titled It Can't Happen Here: so much for analysis. Harvard Through Change and Storm (New York: W. W. Norton, $7.50), as the revised version was called, is a pleasant enough romp through Harvard lore, past and present-the kind of books that gets written every five years or so, and written well every 20. You're probably due for one about...
Jaffe soothes his emotional wounds by retreating into fantasies, notably a romp in the hay with Genevieve Waite. But the viewer wonders: are these only fantasies? And does anybody care...
...themselves). One is a crippled homosexual (Robert Moore) and the other a good-looking, good-natured bumbler (Ken Howard) who throws horrible fits just often enough to keep the action moving. Of course, everyone in town despises them except the local fishmonger (James Coco), who springs for a weekend romp on the beach. There the fortunate viewer gets to see a sexual sideshow that includes Junie and the fit-thrower dancing in the nude, and the gay cripple going from bar to bar slung over the shoulder of a husky black named Beach Boy. The point? None whatever. The film...