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...everybody likes the monkey house. The chimps clutch the bars and make faces; the orangutans lounge obscenely and scratch their hairy orange arms. With ape-like gestures, the cast members of the Mainstage production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade shriek, jabber and carry on. As the inmates of the asylum of Charenton, they perform a play within a play. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat, written by one of their own number, the Marquis de Sade...
...another front, Harvard's Committee on Women's Studies is starting from scratch in its search for the University's first professor of Women's Studies...
...morning at Market Hall, where the convention had its gift bazaar, a man mistook a glass wall for an open door and crashed straight into it. The window exploded all over him. I held his face to assess the damage, but he got off lucky: shaken up, with a scratch on his nose. He was sure he had been heading for a door because the space looked so clear. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...students build their boats from scratch. Students in a separate one-week class build theirs from kits. For their $300 in tuition plus the price of the kit, they work under the guidance of another Maine boatbuilder, Eric Dow, constructing small, square-bowed dinghies known as Nutshell prams. Those who sign for the one-week course in able-seamanship spend their days aboard the schooner Vernon Langille, a 38-ft. replica of a traditional Tancook Island sailing boat, plying the waters off Maine's rocky coast...
...most sympathetic character in the movie. Amusingly sarcastic at times, she is the observer, in a sense, the raisoneur who reduces birth sides to size. While no feminist, she has a full-time career as a doctor. "Both sexes could so with improving, as neither is up to scratch," she tells Ransom. Despite her patronizing airs she is the best of the lot, in terms of genuine concern and integrity...