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Word: played (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play our game," senior forward SandySpringer said. "We don't usually make too manyadjustments for each different team, but we areworking on cutting down on the turnovers, slowingthe game down, and working the ball inside more...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Kotz Is Honored | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...Mather House production of Burn This is not so lucky. Very little catches in this play. The actors lack chemistry and charisma; the set, a carpeted room with a couch that is supposed to side as a dance studio, is unrealistic. The costumes are implausible, and the synthesized music is gratingly tinny...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...potentially powerful play that slips easily into the cliched with Balsam's poor directing job. Benjamin, Krischer and Gaspardo seem to have no idea how to treat these themes. The fourth cast member, Allan Barton, playing Anna's monied lover Burton, seems equally ill-equipped to tackle the problems of modern life which Wilsor's play addresses...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...play with such a small cast, the interaction and timing become critical. The choreography of these players, however, was nothing like clockwork--they seemed either to be tripping over each other's lines or waiting for the delayed delivery of a forgotten one. They did not seem to react at all to each other with any genuine passion, largely because their characters were disingenuously played...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

Everyone in this play smokes at one point or another. It's the director's way of showing us that these people are sensitive, artistic types. We'd never guess it on our own. They certainly don't dress like artists--Larry, inexplicably, is given to wearing sneakers and inside-out Mather House intramural t-shirts...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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