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Demoralization is a serious problem among medical workers. Many doctors and nurses fled during the war and have not returned. Those who stayed are overworked and still shell-shocked from their wartime experiences. At Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, chief surgeon Boghos Boghossian remembers when more than 300 bodies were delivered from the Amiriyah bomb shelter, many charred beyond recognition. There were only 20 burn beds to receive them. Candlelight replaced electricity throughout the hospital, except in the operating theaters, to which all electricity from the generator was diverted. "It was like being thrown back into the Middle Ages," says Boghossian...
Enter, at last, Lysistrata (Kathleen Sweeney) and her horde of woman cohorts: Kalonike (Darla Christopher), Myrrhine (Nancy Boghossian), Lampito (Sarah Brown), Ismenia (Maureen Fallon) and Calipo (Chuck Marshall). Yes, that was Chuck. A male playing a female part--there must be something behind this. You keep waiting for him to reveal his identity and perhaps foil Lysistrata's master plan. When it becomes apparent that nothing of the sort is going to happen, you begin to wonder if enough women auditioned. But no, the director tells you afterwards, they thought it would be a good joke...
...seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect she succeeds. Despite her best efforts, Christopher's speech and actions as Kalonike more closely resemble those of Long Island than of classical Greece while Boghossian's Myrrhine, who has a crucial scene with husband Kinesias (Joe Smith), is far more coy and less brazenly seductive than Aristophanes intended. About the only female character who comes off well is Ward's Granny, who, with her growls and broomsticks, chases after the nerd. Since there is no such...
Varsity Eights--1. Harvard (bow, Paul Templeton, 2. Gordie Gardiner, 3. Tom Howes, 4. Warren Perkins, 5. Charlie Altekruse, 6. George Aitken, 7. George Hatch, stroke, Dave Boghossian, coxswain Jeff Rothstein), 6:01.4; 2. Penn, 6:10.7; 3. Navy...
Stroke--Dave Boghossian...