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...actors' objections restrict Prascak's creativity. This is why I wasn't greeted at my table by a styrofoam penis, and why the actors didn't strap on plastic penises before the performance. These restrictions weren't enough, however, to prevent the teasers from aggressively advertising the f-word or the fliers presenting a drawing of two men charging at each other with ridiculously oversized guess-whats. I should have known what I was in for when I saw the flier with Prascak's name given the same billing as Mamet's. But if you have the endurance to withstand...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: Fun and Profit | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

Public Service Program Student Coordinator Roberta Kellman '88 says HAND and PBH also differ in their recruiting techniques. PBH posters in the Yard and holds open houses, while HAND advertises largely through word of mouth in the houses, Kellman says. Consequently, HAND is more closely tied to house and college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAND and PBH | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...seats. A molded plastic exterior and an engine placed just behind those seats to improve handling gave the auto a justifiable reputation for innovative design. But last week parent company General Motors, citing decelerating sales, suddenly slammed the brakes on all future production of the Fiero (the Italian word for proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Building Less Excitement | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...casualties that sparked last week's rioting in Sumgait (pop. 223,000), situated about 20 miles north of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. According to a local television worker reached by telephone, the trouble started when a group of some 50 Azerbaijanis arrived in Sumgait from Nagorno-Karabakh bearing word of ethnic fighting there. The apparent result was a murderous backlash aimed at local Armenians. An Armenian resident of Sumgait, sobbing into the telephone, told Reuters that Azerbaijanis had gone on a rampage of rape and murder against Armenians. He said that seven members of a single family had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The Armenian Challenge | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...again. Not the H word. All right. Be strong. Face up to it. H-i-t- c-h-c-o-c-k-i-a-n. There. That wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Knew Too Little FRANTIC | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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