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...effort raised $1740 for Oxfam, Henry Dones '79, chief organizer for the fast, said last night. Harvard Food Services contributed 95 cents for every student who agreed to skip dinner, Dones said...
...Garry, Amy Aquino, and the three clownish waiters provide a fine atmosphere as the surly character actors in this sleazy Italian cafe; Skip Mendler is a nicely crotchety old man. Three in this cast, however, seem bent on annoying the audience--Jonathan Prince with his woeful mugging, Caryl Yanow with her too-stiff innocence, and Lisa Popick with a laugh of practiced exaggeration that ceases to be funny the second (let alone the twenty-second) time it is done. George Hamlin leads this production, rescuing an inexperienced cast with rigourously detailed direction. One gets the impression that he has told...
...loss of about $475 million in national production. That is intolerable in an economy beset by a 17% inflation rate, about 7% unemployment and a huge balance of payments deficit. So, when he announced a new austerity program recently, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti included in it a measure to skip two civil and five religious holidays (among them: St. Joseph's Day on March 19, Republic Day on June 2, St. Peter and St. Paul Day on June 29) when they occur next year. Five of the seven days will be taken between Christmas and New Year...
...Harvard student group is urging students and faculty members to skip dinner on November 18 to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international organization that sponsors development and relief projects in the Third World...
...scene, and exactly how much sentimentality to balance against exactly how much humor. Above all, he has an ear for dialogue. The flavor of A Texas Trilogy is finally the flavor of its speech -the drawling, lip-smacking pleasure of one drinker saying of another, "Hell, Skip wouldn't pass up a drink if he had to squeeze it out of an armadillo...