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Harvard's third-string quarterback, Tim Perry, started the game Saturday because of injuries to Tom Yohe (fractured leg) and Rod MacLeod (bad ankle). Perry responded with a gutsy effort, completing 11 of 28 passes for 100 yards and rushing for 65 yards and a touchdown...
...most unlikely subjects into inexplicably successful rock/pop operas. Jesus Christ, T.S. Eliot's cats, roller-skating trains, the Phantom of the Opera. And Argentine actress/first lady Eva Peron. Adam Fratto, who directed last year's Lowell House opera, bucks convention by having a rock ensemble, instead of the traditional string orchestra, play the rock-inspired score. Why has no one thought of this before...
RAGGED BUT RIGHT: GREAT COUNTRY STRING BANDS OF THE 1930s (RCA). Before the rhinestones, country music sounded like this: all heart and no slickum. Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers; Wade Mainer . . . the sounds are as good as the names...
There's more, lots more. A string of ABC specials in coming weeks will focus on people who have committed mayhem against those they love (Crimes of Passion), efforts by law enforcement officials to catch parole violators (Trackdown) and "infamous events that have shocked a nation" (Scandals). The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper, a syndicated special airing this week, presents new clues on the Victorian bad guy, while Who Murdered J.F.K.? claims to offer new evidence of an assassination conspiracy. In the meantime, Morton Downey Jr. shouts down guests nightly on his talk show; a parade of lesbian mothers...
...post-Atlanta Jesse, who nearly disappeared from the political radar screen. Despite the love feast between Jackson and Michael Dukakis at the Democratic Convention, the telegenic preacher quickly became the invisible man of the campaign as the network cameras turned their eyes elsewhere and Jackson retreated after a string of slights from Dukakis aides. His withdrawal provoked former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, a member of the Dukakis campaign steering committee, to charge that Jackson was supporting the ticket "grudgingly and reluctantly." In fact, since September, Jesse has been at full steam. He even flew into Washington to urge members...