Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really knew what was coming off except for the signer-in, who was establishing order person by person. Since each person wanted the whole business explained, it was nine-thirty before he got to my area. Meanwhile the working-class sector of the production crew had brought out four large coffee machines, styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, and so forth, along with a huge box of packaged coffee-cakes. Each package had one yellow roll with sugar frosting smeared against the Saran wrap that held it and a pat of margarine on a blue paper napkin. I ate the frosting...
...until two days before, Bill Cleary, the freshman hockey coach, stood in for him on the long shots-wearing a blond wig that curled out from under his helmet (but only an inch or so) just like Ryan's hair. All the other players were regular Harvard under-graduates except for one specially hired French-Canadian who has two lines (in French-Canadian...
...standoffish. But it was the other small people who were surprising: they too were the way they're all cracked up to be by worried mothers and column-writers. One was a girl who made her living as an extra. She had what amounted to a routine acting job-"except it's very hard to get work." This stint in Watson Rink was even duller than most, she told me, but still it's not a good way to earn a living. "It's just once you begin, you can't give...
...other actors had little or no comment afterwards except to say that they were happy that they had finished the performance. This was an accomplished feat for this cast; the night before an actress had been hit on the head by a bar, and another member of the cast had accidentally set his hair on fire during the performance...
...emotionally pre-occupied. In this context, maybe you can understand how remarkable it is to me that Leland Moss's production of the Chekhov play not only kept me awake for its entire three-and a-quarter hour duration-but sometimes even succeeded in making me forget everything else except what the actors on stage were giving to the audience...