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...Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though its effort is respectable and never embarrassing--to carry too snany words without music. "You want me to cut off my toe for you?" one of the characters asks. "No, I'll cut it off for you" is the groan-worthy reply. "Are you nervous?" someone asks. "No, no, I'm just nervous, that's all." It does come off better on stage, but not that much better...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Slightly Foxed | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

...best seller in the socks scene is a style known as the "toe sock" or "wiggler," which fits, glovelike, in between the toes. The toe look is so successful that one manufacturer, Bonnie Doon, will soon introduce a mitten sock that has one section for the big toe, another for the remaining digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Sock-O Look | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Homans showed that a table of "crown to heel," or head to toe, fetal measurement that the pathologist had testified was to be found in a certain scientific paper could not in fact be found there. That paper did include a correlation of "crown to rump" fetal measurement with certain fetal ages...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fetus Breathed Before Dying, Pathologist Tells Edelin Jury | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

First in the alpine attack was coach Peter Carter'69. Carter once again showed the team how it is supposed to be done, snatching first place with his slippery style. Sporting green satin from head to toe, the gooey-haired Harvardian also laid undisputed claim to the gauchest get up of the granite state gathering...

Author: By David J.states, | Title: Skiers Snatch 1st and 3rd at Beebe Cup Slalom | 1/22/1975 | See Source »

...want to go to the countryside to be a peasant," the one who'd been playing tic-tac-toe said...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Culture and Anarchy in China | 12/11/1974 | See Source »

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