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...addition, they will screen a documentary, "I Have a Dream," on January 19, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on the Loeb Mainstage. There will also be a free sit-down reading of "The Last Good Moment of Lilly Baker," a play by Russel Davis that the ART is considering for a performance on the Mainstage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotating Repertory This Month at the Loeb | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

Even sophisticated audiences get a childlike enjoyment out of scenic prestidigitation, and when the anteroom of Orlofsky's villa rotates in the second act to reveal a banquet hall with a sit-down dinner for 57, the marvel is rewarded with outbursts of applause. A revolving stage, however, should not be the highlight of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fledermaus | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

When they learned the recruiter was holding interviews at undisclosed locations on campus, the students marched to the administration building, tried unsuccessfully to enter the locked doors of Chancellor Joseph Duffy's office and staged a sit-down protest at the affirmative action office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Arrested in CIA Recruiting Protest | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...range. "If someone tells me they have $8,000 to spend," she says, "I tell them to take a picnic." Peggy Leary, who runs a catering business called Ruffles & Flourishes in Boston's blue-collar Charlestown area, reports that the traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...private civil ceremony attended by 30 close friends and relatives at the Beverly Hills home of Producer Irwin Winkler. It was the second time down the aisle for both bride and bridegroom, who afterward treated 150 or so guests, including John Travolta, Donna Summer and Bruce Jenner, to a sit-down dinner, followed by dancing to Righteous Brothers' songs performed by Bill Medley. After a twirl on the dance floor that left guests mesmerized, the couple dashed off for a one-day honeymoon at a Los Angeles hotel. Next morning Sly and "Gitte" were back at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1985 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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