Word: thumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard theater has a way of bringing out the foolishness in us all. In the Lowell Society's twin productions of The Great Catherine and Tom Thumb the Great, silliness is the name of the game. Queens wear metallic platform shoes, cats purr to the tunes of Andrew Lloyd Weber and footnotes come to life...
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...Lowell JCR hosts two comedies this weekend, Tom Thumb and The Great Catherine. Tom Thumb is a parody of Elizabethan drama in which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House...
...updated version of the TV show Mission: Impossible, special agent Jim Phelps no longer gets his top-secret instructions by merely opening an envelope and listening to a tape recorder. These days Phelps puts his right thumb on the special pad of a black box that, after reading his thumbprint, promptly pops open and gives a laser-disc video presentation of his next assignment. No one but Phelps can open the box because no one else has his thumbprint...