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...least three students have declared their candidacy for chairmanship: Finance Committee Chairman, Sesha Prata `84; T. Logan Evans, the chair of the Student Services Committee, known for his unique "King Trivia" contests last November; and Academic committee co-chair Gail M. Latouf `84. Also mentioned as a possible candidate is Mather delegate Craig S. McCrohan...
Flood II also seeps through Squid & Spider (Prentice-Hall; $10.95). Guy Billout imagines the passenger list for a new ark: 800,000 insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize the young: crocodiles swallow stones to aid digestion; giraffes give birth standing up; the sperm whale can hold its breath for an hour. No illustration is more comically apropos than the one of St. Nicholas pulled by a sole reindeer. As wolves pursue his sleigh, Santa diverts them by tossing...
...American accent-has unfolded in its own particular fantasy world. No extremity of stripling down or jazzing up can create the illusion that a Hamlet or a Romeo and Juliet takes place in the modern world; on the other hand, only the most through and scholarly accumulation of historical trivia can even hope to transport the audience back to the actual world the Bard wrote in. Between the two extremes fall the infinite ways Shakespeare is actually played-each in its way imaginary...
Based on a game show concept which Evans failed to sell to national producers. King Trivia will offer three levels of trivia questions on subjects ranging from sports to important historical dates...
Social Committee Co-Chairman Adrienne Headley '86 said. "The fact that I did not know about King Trivia until this week indicates that I have been-bulldozed...