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...entertainment brew featuring pretty people, glossy settings and featherweight romantic plots. Aaron Spelling may have begun his TV producing career with trendy cop shows (The Mod Squad, The Rookies) and helped create one of TV's most acclaimed family dramas (Family), but he will forever be known for a string of fluffy, escapist hits of the late '70s and early '80s: Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and Dynasty...
...Navy's bad reputation owes much to a string of highly publicized incidents. In 1987 Pentagon investigators uncovered "morally repugnant behavior" on a Navy salvage ship cruising the western Pacific, which included the captain's performing oral sex on a prostitute in front of his crew. In 1990 a female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy resigned after she was handcuffed to a urinal by male midshipmen. There have also been reports of rapes and sexual assaults...
University police are also investigating a string of robberies that took place at Grays Hall last week, resulting in a total loss of over $1200. The first theft, on the Monday, involved a loss of $15 in cash. On Tuesday, credit cards and $800 in cash were stolen from an fifth floor room, and later that day a $400 gold garnet graduation ring was taken from a second floor room. According to police reports two black females. who were soliciting in the building, may have been involved...
...crocheted caps, bellbottoms andultra-cheezy, heavy-on-the-string-section scoreare not enough, Crimson Key members turn theviewing into Harvard's very own Rocky HorrorPicture Show. They shout out wisecracks, thenlaugh at their own jokes. As the movie draws toits saccharine close, firstyears generally stareat the screen in stunned silence, wondering ifmaybe they should've picked Yale after...
...once brooding and luminous, tragic and triumphant, spun from a single unending melody in three long, seamless slow movements. Here it is, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by HENRYK GORECKI, newly released on Elektra Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta. The tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism, Poland's reclusive Gorecki...