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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quibbles with director Kathy Lo: Tom and Jim wear suits though they both labor in a warehouse. Why? Tom's makeup is too heavy, almost feminine. A subtle grittiness is missing. Also, Tom gives his narrator speeches front and center stage, not separate enough, not isolated enough. A perch on the fire escape/balcony, even a stroll nearer the audience would have been a nice touch. The lighting was properly dim, but the frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Near the tombstone inscribed "Our Mammy," Christa Barker kneels to examine the seashells heaped as decoration above one or two graves. Martha Hale jumps up and down, shouting "Isn't he darling?"-summoning everybody to the sculptured dog that stands on guard at the front and center of a family plot. Wylie Cohn picks out a weather-blackened stone engraved with the two words: "Not Dead." Sucking his breath in a whistle, Wylie says, "He really didn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...minute or so later, Reed took advantage of some confusion in front of the B.U. crease, nudging the puck past the goal line for the final marker of the evening...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: B.U. Outskates Icewomen, 5-3; Late Crimson Surge Fails | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

Less flashy, but just as important, was the way Harvard cleared the boards against a team that had a front line measuring 6-ft, 11-ins., 6 ft. 8 ins., and 6-ft. 5-ins. Captain Bob Allen, the squad's only senior, tied forward Tom Mannix with six rebounds, and Allen also hit five for five from the floor...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Crimson Drops Cards | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

Most of the youth is up front. Freshman Alex Lightfoot, who captained the Choate-Rosemary Hall team, will center for returnees Deb Rosenman (0-0-0) and Sue Yunick...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fischer, Reed Lead Young Icewomen | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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