Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number, in which drollery parallels satire, has six girls of vacuous countenance with dummy life-sized replicas of themselves clinging to them on each arm. The 18-person line swings into a Radio City Rockettes routine that may, quite possibly, induce laughsphyxia. To match this showstopper, Tune has a show-stomper in which the entire Aggie football team unbenches its mighty legs in unison...
...patron saint of sorts: Elvis Presley. The fundamentalist church's affiliation with the late rock star began last February when the Rev. Lloyd Tomer was faced with a $1 million debt from the building of his new chapel. The 500 parishioners were praying daily for the Lord to show them some way to pay their debt when, according to Tomer, God answered in the person of one Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called Add-A-Tune, Philpot offered to buy one of Presley's planes...
...PERHAPS INEVITABLE that a women's college in the shadow of a major men's university could not hope to maintain a separate identity. Radcliffe's history, despite the claims of Where's Radcliffe?, a multi-media show patterened after Where's Boston?, is basically the story of its awkward coexistence with and eventual digestion by a neighboring men's college...
...Multi-media" makes the hour-and-a-half show sound more complicated than it really is. Three Radcliffe students alternate in delivering prepared monologues on the history and current status of Radcliffe while slides flash on two screens, accompanied by occasional background music. The format is not all that different from an Astronomy 8 lecture...
...least for its first half the show sticks to a purely historical narrative. We are treated to stories of maids during the '20s, nurses during the '40s, food during the '60s, and parietals and boyfriends throughout. It is interesting, though somehow one feels that history can be more exciting than the educational films you used to see in fourth and fifth grades...