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Slide projections, voice-overs and an offstage puppet theater spiced up what was an otherwise fairly homogeneous performance. Kitschy pop culture icons like Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne kept the audience connected to the plot, and the voices of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III as the Mayor of Illyria and Professor of English Derek Pearsall as Shakespeare rang with pleasant familiarity amidst the musical's otherwise bizarre cultural collage...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Your Own Thing' Tries Revamping 'Twelfth Night,' Result Is Mixed | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...five babies would cost the same as one. An enterprising journalist filed a wire-service report, and the quints--Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile and Marie--became global celebrities. Three Hollywood movies were made of their lives; in the midst of the Depression, sales of Dionne dolls outstripped those of Shirley Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVICE FROM THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Myrtle Beach, S.C., when he ran into Debbie Hagley, a girl from a different Huntington high school. "I knew immediately who she was because the names of the victims are emblazoned in the minds of all the survivors," says Keith. Her father and mother, Dr. Ray Hagley and Shirley Hagley, were on that plane, and left behind six children. "I didn't have it easy," says Keith, "but she had it much tougher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...reinstatement of grapes at Harvard. The Coalition released an impassioned mission statement, turning to capital letters to make their points hit home (e.g. "GRAPES ARE TASTY"). A typically fervent debate took over the U.C. e-mail list, and unknown pranksters circulated a bogus poster threatening to toss HDS dietitian Shirley Hung into a crossfire with political pundit and baseball analyst George Will...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Through the Grapevine | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

...Leave Shirley Allen alone. she has a right to be different. THOMAS GREENING, Clinical Psychologist Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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