Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaders of the United Front, the coalition of student groups that organized the torchlight parade and midnight rally, said they expected no more than 1000 students--the same number that had attended Monday's rally--to show up in the Yard...
...playwright was a wild, extraordinary man, a pamphleteer and a music teacher. But very soon after he wrote them, one was taken over by Rossini and the other by Mozart, and the operas effectively put a smokescreen over the originals. Cutting and combining the two plays gives the whole show a fascinating irony. The first play was lighter-hearted, and ended happily with the Count marrying the girl, Rosina. But in the second play, the situation changes--the Count, the hero of the first part, is trying to make off with his servant Figaro's intended bride. In the first...
Massachusetts law requires health care institutions to show clear need for any equipment or facility costing more than $100,000, but Harvard did not follow the certificate-of-need procedure because the Massachusetts Department of Public Health ruled in August 1975 that the plant did not require it, Lashman said...
Over the course of the next several months, the group sought to maintain their momentum and refine their act. They changed their name to Sha Na Na--the background lyric to the song "Get a Job." They learned as many Oldies as they could. The choreography for their show became more elaborate and carefully thought out, complete with flexing and preening, with strutting and scowling, with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry imitations. And their costumes came much closer to authentic 50's garb, even using D-Y Lubricating Cream to grease their hair back--"a vile substance used only...
...show was never intended to be straight nostalgia. It was intended to be ambiguous, to have an edge of irony. The point was that it was an amazing thing for us that even the music of our youth was already an old thing... we could make fun of our former selves and indulge in simple fantasies that we knew didn't define...