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...Remember to breathe!" shouts Dee Trayers, as the people in her class turn scarlet from the effort. A great gasp goes up. They had, indeed, forgotten to breathe. Still glowing, they head for a juice break. Deprivation seems to produce a high level of camaraderie; many people can spend half an hour eagerly discussing the best way to enjoy drinking one-quarter cup of tomato juice...
Only eventual-champion Rutgers could stop the Crimson spikers, and even the Scarlet Knights had trouble fighting off Harvard's upstart crew. Harvard fell to the Knights, 15-13, 15-9, in pool play, then lost in the semi-finals...
...trunks, we have the defender. A surprise winner the last time the title was up for grabs, but in virtually the same shape as a year ago, the champions chomps at the mouth-piece for the chance to make it two in a row. Directly opposite, decked out in scarlet with white trim, waits the contender. Alive down to the last punch a record number of times, and boasting more championships than anyone else, the challenger hopes to renew a recently tainted reputation...
...Gloria" has interweaving melody lines in the vein of a Gregorian chant, and "Scarlet" has an appealing marching rhythm. But U2 simply superimposes these effects on the music when they should give the changes precedence. The Dublin sound was fresh and new but rapidly stagnating. Though U2 gained a foothold in the American market by accenting their insular origin, they must develop something beyond their formula to hold onto their popularity. Otherwise they will suffer the fate of ephemeral bands like the Knack and glide right back into obscurity...
...Sinclair Bull snapped vivid publicity shots of the stars in something less than living Ektachrome. In Hollywood Color Portraits (Morrow; 157 pages; $15.95) Cinema Historian John Kobal has collected 74 of these astonishing pictures. Greats from W.C. Fields to Kim Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal irregularity. Kobal wisely concludes his collection at 1960. These...