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Moore has acted in more than 15 plays at Harvard, as well as being a member of the improvisational theater group On Thin Ice. He has employed his talents in a variety of ways, from performing on the Loeb Mainstage, to directing student productions, to entertaining members of the stage mental institution...
Most Harvard students who have seen Moore in On Thin lee will agree: the slight, yet highly expressive actor combines wit and dynamism to make such subjects as rice paddies and marshmallow factories funny...
Quite appropriately, much of the commentary last week dwelled on Gorbachev's relative youth. After all, his age was one of the few things that outsiders knew for sure about him. Even the CIA's biographical file was, according to one agency official, "pathetically thin and unhelpful--a monument to how little we still know about that damn place and the people...
...mild spring evening air no longer swims with the sweet, full chime of the city's 40 times 40 churches, and waffles are no longer sold, as they were in our childhood, on every boulevard and each street square." The memory sends Alexander into a lyrical flight: "Wonderfully smelling, thin, fresh waffles, which were twisted, still hot, into cornets and crammed with cream--the very image of waves, heaving hump-backed and white-crested as they reach the shore, to topple, curl and close like the wave of Hokusai...
Second, in the political struggle over the funds, nearly every city got a piece. A compromise formula based on population, tax base and per capita income led to a thin, scattershot dispersal of money. The recipients included not only down-at-the-heels municipalities but also gilded places like Palm Springs, Calif., Vail, Colo., and Greenwich, Conn. Critics point out that 25% of grants in 1983 went to cities in the ten wealthiest states...