Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, Gaudio and Valli could retire and still earn a splendid living. Every time a radio station plays one of their records, the partnership makes money. Royalties from past hits bring in as much as $700,000 a year. Many of Gaudio's perky compositions seem to be perpetual money-makers. The first song he ever wrote was Short Shorts; more than two decades later it became the theme song in commercials for Nair hair-removal cream...
...variation of off-white -- and looks cool, stylish and slightly soiled. Two ornate sofas are shrouded with crumpled, much used sheets: this is a world of ceaseless, unsatisfying copulation. Although the sides of the stage are heaped with the bric-a-brac of elegance -- candelabra, statuary, flowers -- the characters seem more at home with simple louvered screens, behind which they peep and eavesdrop. The dialogue is fittingly brittle and epigrammatic. "When it comes to marriage," a much traveled woman says, "one man is as good as the next; and even the least accommodating is less trouble than a mother...
...sailors, who form the traditional chorus. Bader is a delight as she reveals the long-hidden pleasures of screaming in anguish, but the chorus are a mixed lot. The women sailors ("Oh, no!" cries my friend the purist) tend to chew the scenery; the men are wooden. All seem incongruous, with their Japanese baseball uniform-style costumes and their song-and-dance routines. My friend the purist says that there would have been music and dancing in the original, but I wonder if they would have resembled Yannis Arzimanoglou's melodramatic piano music or Eleni Nikolopoulou's Broadway-style choreography...
...sense of community at Radcliffe today is difficult to define, and many go so far as to say it no longer exists. With male students living in the Radcliffe Quadrangle and women on campus referring to themselves as "Harvard students," the days of the sisterhood between Radcliffe women seem to have dissappeared...
...addition, each undergraduate house has a few Radcliffe interns who serve as liaisons between Radcliffe and undergraduates. The student-run program sponsors movies, discussions and lectures in each of the houses and "makes Radcliffe seem less remote," Swett says...