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...minutes of the play are a mite slow, but from the time Cromus (Mathew Gatson) appears the pace picks up, the rude puns start flying and everyone starts to loosen up. Julie Martz and Amy Gould as Doto and Dynamane have some nice moments together as they steadily abandon their resolve to die for "Master" and start appreciating the reasons to live presented by the hunky soldier boy. Gatson plays the philosophical guard charmingly, acting like a guy on his first date who isn't sure when to shut up and just kiss the woman. His flowery lines are delivered...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: God and Ham at Winthrop | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Last year, Penders also declared that this would be the year the Lions would win the Ivy League title. He had Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell--a rich lode of talent he had tapped in his second year--all returning. Yet Penders decided to abandon this Xanadu on Broadway for the basketball wasteland of the nearby Bronx. He took the visionary gamble, betting he would be able to recreate the Shangri-La splendor that was Fordham basketball back in the days when Digger Phelps held sway...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Man and Superman | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...personal hygiene, lusts after his older sister and spends most of his time alone in his room. Without any redeeming charm, he is nonetheless capable of evoking sympathy. Jack never deludes himself about the mess he has become; watching his sisters mourn, he notes: "I wished I could abandon myself like them, but I felt watched. I wanted to go and look at myself in the mirror." Long solitary walks take him to the remains of prefabricated houses that had been knocked down for the forgotten highway. Standing in one, he sees his own emptiness echoed in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Burial | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...representatives will then decide which questions will be on the referendum, or to abandon the project. The motion passed also stipulated that any individual may propose a potential question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assembly To Frame Questions For College-Wide Referendum | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...even possible that he decided to defect because he feared that he was about to be recalled to Moscow, where he no longer would be able to pursue the self-indulgent life to which he had become accustomed. Chavez's revelations, however, will certainly require Shevchenko to abandon some of his breezy ways. He said last week that he was going underground to continue some "very serious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saga of a Decadent Defector | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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