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DIED. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, 95, smart, sensitive 1930s movie actress turned grande dame of the London and New York stage; in Oxfordshire, England. Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime...
...still wanted to be a “Debaser,” even at his current ripe old age.Several weeks ago, I emceed and sang a bit at the first Quincy Cage concert. While attacking the crowd on the final chorus of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” I felt like I could do what those artists did. I was ripping into my innards, and handing them to the crowd as a gift. I don’t know whether they appreciated it, but I did. Maybe I can try and turn my life into more...
...However, the university has publicly discouraged the use of the flag and has asked fans to express their school spirit with other, less offensive symbols...
...With fees as high as $2—enough to buy half a Toscanini vanilla latte—watch where you withdraw if you don’t have an account at the hosting bank. That is, unless you want to donate to the banks in holiday spirit...
...Harvard’s athletic spirit (or lack thereof): I’m thankful that not liking to watch college sports does not make me an outcast, and that only going into the stadium for the last 10 minutes of the Harvard-Yale game was perfectly acceptable. If I had stayed at UCLA, I’d probably already be standing in line to get seats for the USC game this Saturday, and I’d probably have to learn enough about football to understand what was happening when I actually sat and watched the game instead of passing...