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...only other Harvard improvisation group, the one-year-old On Thin Ice, works exclusively in comedy. "They use set games and improvise on stage," said Cassie R. Springer '87, producer of Isthmus Theater...
...compiled these letters press clippings and reports into a 712-page book, The File, published in 1982 by Springer-Verlag. In the book's forward Lang urges the reader to use The File's sources to develop new ways of thinking about social issues. The academic quarrels, personal affronts, progress of the Ladd-Lipset survey and illustrations of biased press coverage make The File an exciting, perhaps unique method of examining an issue. Ladd, the campaign's target, even sent along a congratulatory telegram praising the book as "a major literary achievement...
...gloss over the news and publish the analysis. The conservative Kohl has powerful allies: the nationally distributed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (circ. 332,000), probably the country's most influential daily and all but certainly its weightiest; Die Welt (circ. 210,000), the intellectual flagship of Press Lord Axel Springer's chain, and perhaps the most ardently pro-American, pro-Israeli and anti-Soviet publication in West Germany; Springer's giant Bild Zeitung (circ. 5 million), a sensationalized daily featuring bare-breasted pinups and imaginative stories of sex scandals that nonetheless enjoys unexcelled access to politicians because...
...into distaff disguise to get a part. Tales of Hoffman's adventures in the role abound. At Manhattan's Russian Tea Room on a lunch break, Hoffman-still in costume and makeup-stopped by the table of an old friend, Public Relations Man John Springer. Dustin introduced himself as Dorothy Michaels, an aspiring post-ingénue from Kansas City. Says Springer, who did not twig to the put-on: "I knew there was something fascinating about the woman. I just didn't know what...
...laughter arises from the nagging ordinariness of Rabbit's life. His biggest problem is his son Nelson, 23, who comes home with a pregnant fiancee, announces that he does not want to finish his senior year at Kent State and begins angling for a sales job at Springer Motors. Rabbit dislikes Nelson: "I think one of the troubles between me and the kid is every time I had a little, you know, slipup, he was there to see it." Dodging his son as much as he can. Rabbit quixotically pursues an imagined daughter; he suspects that a young woman...