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This unlikely quintet may not exactly fulfill the ART audience's collective expectations. They sing the original Italian libretto, for instance, and tend to roll about the floor in odd formation--but their capacity to charm and delight is endless. All five are top-flight performers: well-suited vocally for Handel's soft, delicate arias, and passionate and convincing as actors. Sanford Sylvan reveres every syllable he sings as Orlando, and his gentle descent into madness (represented as the planet Mars in this production) is mesmerizing. Janet Brown's rendition of the queen/deb Angelica's melancholy reflection on false hopes...
...They are concerned about themselves, Restic said, adding that potential financial losses and difficulties in scheduling top-flight competition would also discourage Army, Navy and Northwestern from volunteering to make the move...
Four of the top women's squash players--LAURA KAYE, JACKIE CORRIGAN, DIANE STALEY, and MARY HULBERT-- will not be travelling to Bowdoin today to play in the collegiate match. They are ensconced in Princeton, New Jersey, at the moment competing against 16 of the country's top players at a top-flight invitational tournament. Normally only two Crimson members attend,but with the depth on this year's squad, twice that number were asked to play...The rest of the squad travelling to Maine today have sugar plums dancing in their heads--a stop at L.L. Bean is expected...
Commercial labs, more than 50 so far, have sprung up across the country, creating a demand that allows top-flight researchers and agricultural scientists "to write their own ticket." In California venture capitalists have provided "seed" money for Calgene in Davis and Phytogene in Pasadena. In St. Louis Monsanto has just added a gleaming molecular biology center to its agricultural research facilities. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the nation's top breeder of seed corn, has broken ground for its own high-tech molecular biology lab in Des Moines...
...booters--with 16 letterman returning from 1980--get their second chance this year at top-flight competition when Hartwick College, the defending Eastern Regional champ, visits the Business School Field at 3:30 today...