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Drinking more heavily than ever, Barclay goes on the run from Tucker's persistent badgering ("I am a moving target," Golding has written in a confessional essay describing his own pursuit by eager scholars). Tucker tracks his prey to a resort in the Swiss Alps and makes his pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutters of Life and Death | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

Sophomore Jeffrey Korn is lively and hysterically funny as Zerlina's rather slow-witted betrothed, Masetto Along with junior Dominic A. A. Randolph, who plays Giovanni's faithful yet knowing servant Leporella. Korn provides the comic relief for the melodramatic intricacy of the opera. Randolph's Leporella never fails to...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Opera Gigolo | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

The Boston Globe describes Mondale as a man who is "very well known but not known very well." In small groups, he is quick witted, sometimes testy, often funny; the press generally likes him. But on talk shows, Mondale lengthily states his positions instead of relaxing and letting his attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Daring to Be Cautious | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Enter Rep. George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), lifetime politician and an unlikely though erstwhile challenger to the throne. For 17 years, Keverian had been the most loyal subject in the realm, one of McGee's personal favorites who was eventually rewarded with the title of Majority Leader. Whenever McGee had...

Author: By Evan T. Barr, | Title: Spring Housecleaning | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

When the actors do relax and let their hair down, the results are delightful. Cobb, who seems to have the most fun on stage, turns in an electric performance as Billy Crocker, a quick-witted entrepreneur with a perpetual crush. As female impersonator, or gleefully mugging across the stage in...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Most of it Goes | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

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