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However, this play is not a simple threeway tug of war. At the end of each scene, the lights flash up for a moment over the frozen actors. As each character's features congeal into an expression of immobility they betray a deeper trouble beneath their loveloss. There we see how terrible it is that Lloyd's jealousy is toppled over the edge by a carefully sounded out description of a hermit crab. We see one hundred and fifty-four dollars changing melodrama into tragedy...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mud: The Best Plays are Hard to Find | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...loss dropped the Big Red (3-1 overall, 3-1 ECAC) out of a threeway tie for first place in the league, leaving Harvard and St. Lawrence to share the top spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLU Downs Cornell | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Kramer's classmates Nick D'Onofrio, Derek Mills and Paul Baverstock remain locked in a threeway second-place tie with 13 points...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Booters Favored to Reach Final Four | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

...then, with widespread rumors that his boss, President Nixon, was unhappy with his performance. But it was not the first time that Kissinger had found it difficult to be his own man and Richard Nixon's man at the same time. Doggedly carrying on what Washington pundits called "threeway negotiations -with Hanoi, Saigon and Nixon," Kissinger became a driven diplomat. Toward the end, his usual gentle, self-deprecating jokes took on wild flights of black humor. But he persevered, often making tactical compromises, always following his maxim that policy depends on calculation, not emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: A View of Henry Kissinger Riding High | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...after he signed with the Hawks, Erving was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks of the N.B.A., who claimed that Atlanta signed him illegally. In the resulting threeway, two-league struggle for Dr. J's considerable talents, the Squires have sought a court injunction to prevent him from playing for Atlanta. The Bucks have also won a ruling from the N.B.A.'s board of governors that Erving belongs to Milwaukee. Atlanta, a troubled franchise with the greatest need for Erving, last week refused to pay a $25,000 fine levied by N.B.A. Commissioner Walter Kennedy for using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. J's Dilemma | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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