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During the first act, the strongest part of the show, the five actresses are seventeen-year-old high school seniors who have just been voted most popular, most likely to succeed, best dressed, class clown and class cutie. Ravenal's revue-style production successfully recreates the feelings of sex hungry, adolescent, neurotic, sweetly vicious teenagers. And the exceptional cast manages to hook up the disconnected images of each high school experience and present a picture of what the good old days at least ought to have been like...
...Seventeen consecutive dual meet wins ... A perfect 6-0 record so far this year, the closest contest leaving Army 29 points behind ... Charges of complacency and laziness surrounding this gifted squad...
Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
...declare her husband's birthday a state holiday. Governor Jimmy Carter refused, saying the Federal Government should take the lead. President Jimmy Carter, who has held the nation's highest office for almost two years, yesterday received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize from Mrs. King. Seventeen year veteran Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), told a group gathered for the birthday observance in Atlanta that as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he would do everything in his power to make King's birthday a full legal holiday "in every city, town and village in this...
Stiles barely missed three attempts with the bar at 17 ft., 1/2 in. "Seventeen feet looks like it's there, "Stiles said. "It's just a matter of a bit more practice...