Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Buckingham's set is cramped and jury-rigged, even considering the difficulties of setting up in the House dining hall. The lighting often casts shadows over the actors' faces and is slow coming on. One technical touch is superb, however: a snatch of wistful carnival music used as the theme for the glass menagerie...
...nice touch of local color, thought Director Ron Winston, as he lined up the water buffalo. The bewildered beast was assigned to loll around while Hero Hugh O'Brian, 37, went tearing by with two battle companions in a scene from something called Ambush Bay, filming on location in the Philippines. O'Brian swashbuckled past on cue, but then the buffalo ad-libbed by charging the hero, tearing through his combat jacket with its horns, fracturing two of his ribs and leaving him out cold in an irrigation ditch. What a break. As soon as O'Brian...
...November Advocate closes with an aimless apologia which shrilly proclaims that young writers exist in the world, admits they don't go to Harvard, and wishes they would get in touch with the Advocate. The editors complain that: (1) potential contributors would rather shoot for big money from national magazines than write for local audiences, and (2) talent, like nature, can't be forced -- no one can squeeze pieces out of writers when they're doing things like picketing the White House...
...philosophy has been carried over from fall co-ed soccer, touch football, swimming and sailing. On long winter evenings Harvard men will be able to join Cliffies in the Radcliffe gym for either badminton, volleyball or submersion in the pool...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 19--Harvard's house soccer and touch football teams crushed their Yale opposition in three of four games today. Lowell and Eliot, first and second respectively in the Harvard house soccer league, shut out their Eli opponents 2-0, 1-0. Quincy's undefeated touch football team smothered Morse College 8-6. Yale won only the soccer game, 5-0, with Harvard freshmen all-stars...