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...when Donoso starts pulling his fanciful strings, a model named Sylvia is revealed as a sapient dummy whose arms can be popped from their sockets and whose features can be wiped away. To her lover, Anselmo, Sylvia is an ideal of female submissiveness. But Sylvia has a trick up her armless sleeve. A subtle application of vanishing cream causes Anselmo's sex to disappear-just before his return home to his wife...
...University showed extreme callousness toward the workers at the hearings, which also brought to light the possibility that Harvard used the new summer hiring policy to punish a shop steward in Eliot House for union-related activities. Last spring, Sylvia Gallagher helped lead a lunch-hour walkout by members of Local 26 for an emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job--one that...
Judy Banks '79 plays Sylvia, the musical's female lead. "The biggest thing going for the show is the enthusiastic cast. It's been more fun than anything else," she said yesterday...
...first book (and the new volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets), Greek-born Olga Broumas, 27, displays both reckless energy and passion. Her subject is sexual love between women, and her allusions range from the classical goddesses through fairytale heroines to such contemporary poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The poems portray lesbianism as a brave new world, a terrain that women have been tricked (by themselves and men) into avoiding. To the uncertain, Broumas offers a refuge in eroticism...
Photographer's Model Cristina Raines likes her new apartment with its view of the Manhattan skyline, but the neighbors are a little strange. When she drops in for tea with the lesbians downstairs (Sylvia Miles and Beverly D'An-gelo), one of them masturbates in front of her. Fey old Burgess Meredith, who has a fixation on his cat and an unearthly gleam in his eye, drags her upstairs to a spooky party. At night somebody overhead stamps and clanks until Raines' chandeliers sway like a leftover set from The Exorcist. But then, what did she expect...