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...black tie of the soloists, which includes a woven Indian style smock along with the cummerbunds and so forth. But what happens on stage necessarily leaves them pale by comparison. Carlo Rizzo who dances the rooster is astonishing as is Susan White as the Fox; the latter in a scarlet body stocking attacks and "dies" with a sinuous grace while Rizzo does best in the rooster's moments of sweaty panic. In one such attack White flips Rizzo to the ground where his black satin coattails fall over his face. His hands the only part of him left unconcealed poke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Animal Dances | 7/12/1983 | See Source »

...tutoring. She agrees and sets her room in the local boardinghouse as the appointed place. Her landlady greets Tony's arrival there with dark suspicion. She senses an aura of incipient scandal hovering about Miss Doubloon. The teacher will, in fact, soon ask her class to read The Scarlet Letter, provoking local bluenoses to declare: "We're gonna tighten our Bible Belt!" On this snowy winter evening, the landlady's wicked mind proves prescient. Upstairs, after some strained academic proprieties, teacher and student fall into the error of each other's arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Sexual Revolution Began | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...whisper and chew gum in the house?"). Before she goes home to bear his child in Kalamazoo, Miss Doubloon strikes a defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign on the right side. A badge of shame becomes, presto, a sexual advertisement; the event heralds "the birth of the 20th century T shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Sexual Revolution Began | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...while the Crimson did itself in by its anemic attack, the Rutgers offense did its share, giving the Harvard defense constant headaches with its fast breaks. The entire Scarlet Knight offense would head upfield the moment its goalie had the ball, creating many six-on-four chances, which produced nearly half the Rutgers fouls. Harvard goalie Tim Pendergast was understandably busy throughout the game, making 20 saves before Crimson Coach Bob Scalise gave back-up Mark Vita some playing time in the fourth quarter...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: ... But Laxmen Turn Scarlet of Rutgers | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...first it seemed that Harvard freshman Chris Pujols might fill the scoring role for the visitors; his goal 13:49 off a pass from Joe Sollee kept Harvard within one at the end of the first quarter. But the Scarlet Knights pulled away with three unanswered goals in the second period...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: ... But Laxmen Turn Scarlet of Rutgers | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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