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Dartmouth enters today's game in high spirits after netting three Ivy triumphs in a span of six days. The Big Green rolled over Cornell, Yale and Brown by an average seven goal margin...
...course, any modern fair is obliged to give frequent lip service to a kind of chipper one-worldism (110 countries have exhibits -- an all-time world's fair record!) and to environmental sensitivity (organizers planted 300,000 shrubs on the site!). Moreover, the gee-whiz, spick-and-span perkiness found in New York's Flushing Meadows in 1964 is strikingly evident in Seville. At any moment, one expects to see teams of Esperanto-speaking U.N. technicians in lab coats disembarking from Hovercraft to brief James Bond...
Moving to New York City in 1976, he whirled through a quick succession of jobs with such big-name choreographers as Eliot Feld, Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean and Hannah Kahn. "I didn't have a giant attention span," he says, explaining why he was so peripatetic. But that was only part of the reason. "Modern dancers are not trained to do anything but follow directions," says Erin Matthiessen, his former lover; Morris met him when they both danced in the Dean company. "Mark thought for himself." Too often, he thought aloud, arguing with the choreographers, making unwanted suggestions...
...Zucker, defying the MTV-generation stereotype, has not turned the show into Short Attention Span Theater. In fact, he is letting interview segments run longer -- six to seven minutes, on average, compared with 4 1/2 to five minutes previously. "I think the audience would like more in-depth treatment of some issues," he says. "I hate cutting people off." His approach has had another, not incidental benefit: with longer segments the show runs one or two fewer pieces each day. That relieves some of the burden on the trimmed-down < staff and saves money as well. "You have to accept...
Stewart, 28, has gained national recognition as the host of the popular cable show Short Attention Span Theater. He was the recipient of this year's Young Comedian's Award...