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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until a hilly, winding section between the four- and five-mile points did Murphy start to work his way to the front. With a little more than a mile left, the race for the lead came down to three people: Murphy, Predmore, and Eli Peter Wehrwein, who outkicked Murphy for the Big Three crown a week...
...Harvard, this game realistically has to be viewed as the start of a streak to make the season respectable. With a 1-3 mark so far in the league and a 1-5 overall, the Crimson faces the prospect of two losing seasons in a row in the Ivies and a third consecutive overall campaign of .500 or worse...
...Harvard-Radcliffe under the guiding hand of director Myra A. Mayman, has grown enormously in breadth and depth, offering instruction in many arts including pottery, printmaking, painting and dance. "When I came to Harvard in 1973, the arts were too recreational," Mayman explains. "It was my intention to start serious and demanding programs in the arts that focused on expert direction and instruction." Following the merger, Harvard took responsibility for sports, dance became a stepped-up program and all vestiges of recreation were soon gone...
Stoppard gathers a committee of imprudent MPs and gives them the task of rooting out immorality among their colleagues. As members of this special committee each inadvertently reveal pairs of panties pulled from back pockets and briefcases, you start wondering what has happened to Stoppard's proverbial cleverness. In Jumpers he used stage acrobatics to poke fun at and illuminate complicated philosophical questions; here he finds no better use for age-old sight gags than to keep his audience interested between long recitations of names of English inns...
...Arthur's monologue, a 25-minute anthology of cliches about America, with more spirit than technique. This sequence can be one of Stoppard's funniest; its droning tour through Hollywood images of American cities in the '30s, with recaps in every train station, ought to build from a slow start to demonic possession. Hall starts off with too much energy, and, unable to add more, resorts to flailing his arms to hold the audience's attention...