Word: iceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playing Field. For the fun of it is the only way Cleveland's Rocky Colavito has ever played baseball since he discovered the game existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field...
Another development on the local dramatic scene is the announcement of a "Harvard-Radcliffe Night" for Wednesday, Dec. 10, for the Charles Playhouse production of The Iceman Cometh. Harvard and Radcliffe students and guests will be entitled to a 20 per cent reduction...
...Iceman, after two postponements of opening nights, Cometh indeed. He was worth waiting...
Their first offering is, as everyone knows, no good at all. Iceman is elephantine, it is sententious, it is infinitely repetitious and mawkishly obvious. It consists mostly of faithfully recorded drunken blithering, interspersed with two-bit philosophy. But, to the eternal embarrassment of dramatic theorists, the play is great without being good. Like the whiskey that is inflicted on the characters, Iceman demands that we take in a great deal of water and sludge in order to get a little of the real stuff...
Director Michael Murray had a hand in the Circle-in-the-Square production of Iceman, which may be a clue to the excellence of this one. He manipulates his forces and his protruding stage with great dexterity, especially in the ensemble parts of the last...