Word: toe
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...comes in a thousand shades, from vivid reds to somber browns. There is the quick, flashing smart of a ringer scorched by a flame or the grinding torment of the dentist's drill striking close to a nerve. We all know the dull throb of a stubbed toe that sends us hippity-hopping from foot to foot in search of distraction. And many have felt the pain that cuts deeper: the gut-clutching agony that we awaken to after surgery...
...tendency of the council last year was to pass resolutions on "political" issues--such as urging that Harvard divest from South Africa--often on no more information than a few hours of discussion. Conversely, this year's body tends to proceed with more caution and to toe the line on political issues. Says Council Vice Chair Brian R. Melendez '86, "Last year, we passed a resolution on it, this year we did a report...
...glittering costumes and the rotating mirrored sets, however, the extravagance at times seems almost embarrassing. The book is just too silly, and quite a few of the songs ring flat in the contemporary ear. Among the notable exceptions to this are some familiar hummable-or perhaps more appropriately, toe-tapping-numbers, including "We're in the Money," Lullaby of Broadway," Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and the title song...
There is ample invention .in the production, but not all of it is fully realized. Cinderella is provided with a pet cat (Gil Boggs) who neatly steals all his scenes. The stepsisters, lunging around in their toe shoes, are fun at first, but they have few bits of bright business and very little individuality. A similar blandness mars the heroine. The choreographers seem to have more respect than affection for Cinderella, and the steps she is given are not memorable. Cynthia Gregory uses lovely floating balances and her skills as an actress to project the part through a theater...
...beaked, he was the "American eagle" to an admiring Winston Churchill. Though he took part in three wars, Mark Wayne Clark won his greatest renown as the World War II soldier who led the first army in history to fight all the way up the Italian boot from toe to top. In 1943, at 46, he was the nation's youngest three-star general when he was picked by Dwight Eisenhower to organize the U.S. Fifth Army in Africa. At his death last week of cancer in Charleston, S.C., General Clark, 87, was the last of the great wartime...