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...gussied up to go see them. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, these events get away with masquerading as high culture. In this video age, does anything that appears in a theater automatically deserve that appellation? Even someone dressed up as a cat named Rum Tum Tiger...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: The Windy Shitty | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Tensions have risen in Guatemala since anti-government activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum won the Nobel peace prize last month, the students said...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Terror Cited in Guatatmala | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE--The war of memos between the Physics and Biology Department raged on yesterday as Acting Chair of the Physics Department Quan-Tum Spin accused Biology of being "a powerhouse of pre-medical preparation," and "a sloppy, poor excuse for an academic discipline...

Author: By William H. Bachman, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Physics-Bio Memo War Escalates | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

...those who cannot escape her, her daughters and the invalids. Ruth (Robyn Fass) tries to escape her stifling influence by flirting with the boys at school, and Tillie, the younger daughter (Celia Wren) absorbs herself in the marvelous power of the atom, (or as she pointedly pronounces it--"a-tum") which becomes a metaphor for the potency of human relationships...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Marigold Madness | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...more Vegas-like now. In both casts, only the dancers playing the secondary role of Alonzo (Ken Nagy in Washington, Stephen Moore touring) achieve the cool detachment of another species. The singing, although always vibrant, is uneven. In the peripatetic cast Andy Spangler glows as the Elvis-like Rum Tum Tugger and Leslie Ellis is haunting as Grizabella, the faded glamour cat, but in the Washington troupe the performers in those roles, Douglas Graham and Janene Lovullo, do not measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: How Does Broadway Play in Peoria? | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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