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...housing lottery maniac once described Lowell House "a place where you'll get a lot of wear out of a tuxedo or a long, black skirt. "Nowhere does the truth behind the caricature shine through so clearly as at the annual Lowell House opera. Few other music and drama societies, while putting off the most ambitious of feats, strive to emulate the Metropolitan Opera House. At the 44th Annual Lowell House Opera, by contrast, the ushers wear black velvet, the concentration of Faculty members and other non-students is high, especially on "patron night" and the sets, voices and period...
...arrested at Varennes. A few will be present when the decree ordering the royal family to return to Paris (and eventually the guillotine) is read out to them. All they will see of that historic moment will be the King's shoes and socks, the Queen's skirt swishing this way and that as they pace off their anger and frustration. For the closest the observers can get is a perch on a staircase with the eyes at the level of the royal bedroom's floorboards. That is fine. In fact, for Director Scola's purposes...
...Jenny from Lowell House, and #061, Ben from South House, introduce themselves. #1205 attired in an Annie t-shirt and a black mini-skirt says all her roommates are participating in the revelry as #061, decked in jeans and a black t-shirt, spins her violently in a circle. They soon move along, engaging in mock combat...
...there is a small group at Harvard whose job it is to disobey these signs. They weigh the permanence of a fifth-century Greek vase in their hands, or they dust off the skirt of a Degas dancer's dress. They are the men and women who work on the top two floors of the Fogg Art Museum, at the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies...
...Reagan a "political 'Tootsie' . . . wearing clothes which quite frankly (at least when he was a candidate) I was unaware were in his wardrobe. And the maddening thing is that despite the fact that he is now decked out again figuratively speaking, in a big floppy hat, a skirt, high heels, wearing bright red lipstick and carrying a purse, the President and his men tell us-with straight faces-that there has been no change...