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Cinderella trades in her evening gown for a lacrosse skirt this afternoon and goes on the biggest date of her life. And if she gets her final wish, she'll write a championship ending to her spring fairy tale...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Cinderella Meets Harvard | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

Richard Lamm, 47, Governor of Colorado, on the old adage that the economy follows women's skirt lengths: "Hemlines now are just below the knee but split to the thigh. I'm not sure what that means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 25, 1983 | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...character who seems unbeatable despite his efforts to the contrary. With a breathless voice, and a fey, almost stupid demeanor. Walker's Sybil seems both attractive and repellent. Much of Private Lives' fun results from watching Sybil evolve as the play unfolds. Walker's confidence--and gestures that skirt the melodramatic but manage to remain realistic firmly anchor her character, if only in space. But as good as Walker is, she can't compete with Taylor and Burton, which is not to say that Taylor and Burton are all that good...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Invasion of Privacy | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Footfalls, May (Karen Macdonald) calls her mother (Marianne Owen) back from the dead. Clad in flowing scarves and a long skirt, May reminisces about life before her mother's death. In the second part of this three-part development, the Voice (of May's mother) speaks for itself, and for the finale, May refutes her mother's speech. May, who later becomes Amy in a word-game switch typical of Beckett, seems to be attempting to put her mother, finally, to rest...

Author: By Andred Faxtenberg, | Title: Triple Take | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...denies that the turmoil affected his decision to skirt tradition when he took office in 1971. The motivation, he says, was that, at the time, he had three small children, and the construction of Pusey Library created a huge crater in the Yard...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: Little House in the Big Yard | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

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