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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during Prohibition? Admittedly Oh, Kay! has a book co-authored by one of the enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version is directed by Loeb's Wunderkind Josh Rubins '70, author of the well-received musical Suffragette! At the Loeb tonight through Saturday and July 7-12 at 8 p.m. except Saturday at 9. Tickets are a steep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

...process. A prime example of this is the People's Bicentennial Commission, a half-baked organization of radicals (I'm at a loss to categorize them any more specifically) whose own personal interpretation of the Revolution is a populist one. Our revolutionary heritage should lead us to smash big business and "Tell it to Wall Street." (Just what Wall Street is supposed to be told is unclear.) the PBC could make a case for our Founding Fathers being individualists, maybe, but populists? Questionable at best...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: We Must Be Doing Something Right | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

...story: During exam period last June, a student became so worried about an upcoming final that he asked his roommate to smash his finger with a hammer. The roommate obliged, with some precautions taken for his friend's safety and comfort, and the distraught student suffered his way into an airtight medical excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handling Grade Panic | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...sound is salsa, as in salsa picante-Spanish for hot sauce. As anyone who can tell tamales from timbales knows, salsa is guaranteed to open up nerve endings. From Boston to Miami, young Hispanics are picking up the beat. In recent years Latin music programs have been smash hits at New York's Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. There is an embryonic curiosity about salsa on the pop scene too, among fans who are no longer charmed by recycled golden oldies-Bobby Vinton's Beer Barrel Polka, for example-or who prefer music that is spicy rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enter Salsa: Some Like It Hot | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...music in five-track Quintaphonic sound, and a camera that socks back and forth like an All rabbit punch, and you have an experiences so full that it cancels itself out. You buck and heave uncontrollably for two hours and waddle out of the theater, hoping that you'll smash the car into a wall on the way home or something because maybe that'll top it. See what it feels like...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Sure Playing a Mean Pinball | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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