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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rolls dealers welcomed the price cuts, but they do not expect a dramatic rise in sales. They point out that for most Rolls buyers, who in the past have included George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Greta Garbo and Reggie Jackson, price remains a secondary consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Rolls-Royce Fire Sale | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...unproduced in the First Folio for more than a century. The reasons are not hard to guess. Shakespeare gave his play the structure but not the spirit of a romance, and gave the leading female characters most of the good lines and gracious impulses. Commentators from Coleridge to Shaw have praised Helena and the Countess as among the "loveliest" and "most charming" of Shakespeare's heroines, while dismissing Bertram and Parolles as unworthy of the ladies' or our interest. By Act V, Helena's passion for her unrequiting snob has become an act of beatific willfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three Cheers and a Kowtow | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...following juniors were elected Mildred H. An, a History and Literature concentrator from Winthrop House: Caren L. Grossbard, Psychology and Social Relations. Lowell: Pauline T Kim, Social Studies. Lowell: Janet B. Pascal, History and Literature, Dunster, Lin F. Shaw, Applied Mathematics. Mather, Judith H. Silverman, Mathematics. Winthrop: Deborah S. Stier, Psychology and Social Relations, South. Linda D. White, Biology, Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...issues is an outrage, but what really bothers me is that after all that has happened to people of African descent for the last 400 years all around the Western world, there could still be anyone from any background who could in any way think it was funny. Alan Shaw '85, BSA President

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Joke For Some | 4/15/1983 | See Source »

Apart from George Bernard Shaw himself, few British stage veterans have done as much to promote the works of the white-bearded comedic master as Rex Harrison. He starred in the 1941 film version of Major Barbara, then played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of Pygmalion. Now Harrison is again setting the Shavian standard, this time with Diana Rigg, 44, and a thoroughly splendid cast in a production of Heartbreak House, which opened triumphantly at the Haymarket Theater in London's West End last week. For his role as the 88-year-old Captain Shotover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1983 | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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