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Affinity is the most potent magic the theater has to offer. When Jason Robards plays Eugene O'Neill or Julie Harris portrays Emily Dickinson, the evening is transfiguring - both radiantly illuminating and deeply moving. That is what is happening on the stage of Broadway's Plymouth Theater, where Jane Lapotaire plays Edith Piaf as if she is being flayed alive and only the lacerated nerve ends glow in the dark like neon...
...mounted, the Americans tried to divert themselves with crossword puzzles and, in spite of their lack of sleep, tennis on the embassy courts. Once, while waiting for a particularly critical Iranian reply, the Americans joshingly cast an imaginary movie of the negotiating drama. They agreed that Henry Fonda or Jason Robards should play the lead, poker-faced Christopher. Karl Maiden was their choice as soft-spoken Harold Saunders, the State Department's Near Eastern specialist. Peter Ustinov was assigned the role of Alec Toumayan, the team's balding, urbane interpreter...
...proved too great to bear. The opponents commiserated watching the decisive battle, a five-game, seesawing, gut-wrenching match involving Harvard's Chip Robie, who had suffered from the flu all week. The Crimson racquetmen wondered whether he had the stamina to go the distance with stubborn Tiger Jason Fish...
...portrayal of the recluse-millionaire Howard Hughes, Jason Robards exploits this dichotomy to great advantage. Bedraggled though he may be, he seems slightly offended by his uncouth driver. During their drive together, each takes turns looking at the other as if he were crazy. Goldman, who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, keeps Howard poised on the precipice of sanity. One moment he is bleeding. The next he takes on an odd dignity, refusing to sing Melvin's Christmas carol (Melvin sent in the lyrics to one of those companies that writes music to your words.) Eventually Howard...
Cultural Survival organized the concert at the request of Tony Seeger '67, who teaches anthropology at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Jason W. Clay '73, director of research at Cultural Services, said yesterday...