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...chanting as "Yale sucks" and "safety school," the Harvard-Yale debate comes to the fore. Despite statistical records that suggest otherwise, here we have the real championship of the Ivy League. The football game is merely the facade behind which lies the battle for prestige, the fight for the throne...
...deep concern for the role of form and color. Despite its poorly lit display area, the genius of the bronze Detroit Queen emanates from its patinate form. Composed of sheet metal, gears, and bowls, the rigid figure in the work stands precariously balanced on the flowing forms of its "throne...
...Switzerland, who is the acknowledged head of a now bitterly divided family. "We cannot even think of it," he told Massie, even though some symbols of the czarist past, like the country's pre-Soviet flag, have been restored. Should the impossible happen, one plausible candidate for the throne is a retired U.S. Marine colonel named Paul R. Ilyinsky, the son of the late Grand Duke Dimitri, a cousin of the Czar's. Ilyinsky, however, prefers the job he already holds: mayor of Palm Beach, Florida...
...nearly everyone else on stage must bow to the diction and dash of Douglas Miller's judge. Miller, as Harvard's G&S fans know, could make a career breathing life into these archaic operettas. He presides over the court-room chaos with the imperturbility of Victoria on her throne and is equally game to hop from his bench for "Trial by Jury's" spirited polka climax...
Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...