Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different vein, Charlotte Kaufman directs "The Poor Soldier," an Irish ballad opera by William Shield and John O'Keeffe, Dublin, 1783, at Tapestry Hall, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at 3:30 pm on Sunday. The performance is free and details are available at 267-9300, ext. 340. At Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boyleston Street, Boston, Marla Prince leads a vocal ensemble tonight at 7:30 pm. Info about the free concert is at 266-1400. Also, at the University, sopranos Marguerite Coughlin and Sabra Loomis and pianist Alvin Novak perform works of Liszt, Wolf, Schumann and Berg. The free...
...military aid per soldier amounted to $930, while per capita income in Nicaragua was only...
...book is a biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
Tales might almost be subtitled Heaven Will Not Protect the Working Girl. The young heroine, Marianne (Carol Kane), works in her father's toy-soldier shop. The father (Robert Burr) affiances her to a middle-aged butcher friend (Clarence Felder). She balks at the match, runs off with a feckless horseplayer (John Glover) and eventually winds up doing nude tableaux in a cabaret. At play's end there are several reconciliations, all of them more bitter than sweet...
...could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness and sunstroke to capture rare lizards. But to capture the cyclamen-colored Mauritian pink pigeon, all the rescuers risked was a fall from a tree. The birds proved so suicidally stupid that they merely watched, heads cocked with curiosity, as a Mauritian soldier the size of a middle linebacker climbed up a tree with all the agility of an elephant and snagged one in a net. Not all endangered species, it appears, play hard...