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...lives on the wrong side of the tracks after the tracks are torn up? Neil Simon has reworked and revived his 1962 musicomedy farce, complete with Cy Coleman's winningly melodic score, but he cannot restore its sociological geography. His brassy heroine, the evocatively named Belle Poitrine (Mary Gordon Murray), a non-lady who is a bona fide tramp, wants to acquire culture, fame, wealth and social acceptance. In 1982, culture is a two-syllable word that has disappeared from most vocabularies, and a bona fide tramp has a hammerlock on fame, wealth and social acceptance, provided she selects...
...second straight game, point guard Calvin Dixon sat in the grandstands, watching the action mournfully and nursing some badly torn knee ligaments. Dixon will be out for at least a month, and without him to lead the offense, Harvard had trouble in the first half getting the ball inside to big men Joe Carrabino and Monoe Trout...
...shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for attempting to kill the Pope. Ever since, Agca has claimed that he acted alone. But right from the start, Italian police and the judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment felt to the contrary, yet were strangely reluctant to pursue their leads. Last week Italian investigators finally declared that they...
Boland was not available for comment yesterday, but McLaughlin and Dixon described the injury as either strained, sprained, torn, bruised or partially torn knee ligaments...
Each engine--delivered to the plant in August after more than two years of storage in an area warehouse--currently is being "torn down and put back together" and then installed in a "tune up" program, Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, said yesterday...