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Angels is the first gay-centered play to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama; the runner-up was the best show of the off-Broadway season, the equally gay and angry memoir of AIDS activist Larry Kramer, The Destiny of Me. A decade ago, the theater establishment collectively winced when its vital self- advertisement to Middle America, the telecast of the Tony Awards, opened with a best-play prize to the flamboyant Harvey Fierstein for Torch Song Trilogy. This year it seems likely that virtually every category may be won by shows with gay elements. Among the other contenders: Lynn...
Though history does not record how other Venetian painters felt about competing with Titian, it cannot have been easy for them. Especially not for Tintoretto, a genius of the first rank, whom Titian's longevity compelled always to be a runner-up. Titian's work, so masterly in its effects, so profoundly inventive, so grand in scope and yet relieved by such suppleness and intimacy of feeling, continued to set the tone of aspiration for Rubens in the 17th century and, through Rubens, for painters like Delacroix well into the 19th...
With a combined 9-24 record across all three weapons (epee, saber and foil), there often hasn't been much to cheer about besides the swordplay of the defending NCAA runner-up in the foil, sophomore Kwame van Leeuwen...
...hitting shots everywhere. He does not play percentage tennis." That unorthodox brilliance was never better displayed than on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1975 when Ashe faced the enfant terrible of tennis, Jimmy Connors. Connors swaggered onto the court as the bookmakers' darling. Ashe turned him into an unexpected runner-up with a four-set lesson in pinpoint placement...
Rose, a social studies concentrator and Crimson editor, beat three opponents for Prabhu's seat with 68 votes, according to Victor Chiu '95, Dunster delegation chair. The runner-up, Jason R. Dean '95, received 50 votes...