Word: kristen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly all Rosenwald's actors are also excellent, most of them in several different roles, although Tom Yellin, Charles Weinstein, Jomo Schur, Kristen Wiley, and especially Mary Tisco seemed to me to stand out the most. Suki Taylor is a remarkably winning Grusha. Neal Solomon dominates things whenever he's on stage, as the profane and bribe-demanding judge whose tenure is remembered as a brief golden age of justice because he's willing to fine for atheism the rich farmers who don't like miraculous explanations for their provisions' presence in a poor peasant's larder--"I ask Your...
...number of the A.M.A.'s specific charges about the show were petty, but others were significant. One of the show's human-interest vignettes, for instance, concerned Kristen Knapp, 5, whose congenital heart condition received prominent treatment in the documentary. NBC showed the girl being denied necessary corrective surgery be cause her father-laid off his job two years earlier-could not afford...
...Kristen had received heart surgery at a Cleveland hospital five weeks before the broadcast. Further, the A.M.A. said, the girl had always been eligible for free medical attention through Ohio's crippled children program. NBC's rather lame response: the Knapps had not been made aware of the benefits available to their daughter at the time the documentary was filmed, and NBC had been unable to reach the family for an updated report on Kristen before broadcast time...
...perhaps most important-why did NBC allow sloppy reporting on the Kristen Knapp case to undermine what was generally a serious and courageous report on a very real national problem...
...Harvard Square wonderland continues to blossom under Kristen's resourceful direction. At Festival "headquarters" at the Loeb, activity has reached a feverish pitch on stage, in the shop and in the HDC office. Jon, Weezy and Colin seem to be everywhere at once, followed by an enthusiastic production staff wherever they go. Yet the working group is not yet large enough--the Harvard Festival of the Arts and the Harvard Square Arts Festival want to provide a spring celebration for every interested Harvard student, for every fun loving or energetic member of the Harvard and Cambridge communities. As a spring...