Word: nathanisms
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...instance, Bok's tenure as presidentinitially promised to be quite different from thatof his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey...
Vice President for Alumni Affairs andDevelopment Fred L. Glimp '50 worked with bothformer presidents Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek C.Bok. And he, along with other senioradministration officials, says Rudenstine's planis something...
...Molly," she sighed. "All the other kids are home now. Alissa came home from Texas. Nathan's back from the Academy. Can't you come home...
...realism. "I wanted the feeling of something ecstatic, like religion -- not listening to a sermon, but when you're singing and emoting and entering into a happy waking dream. The world these characters inhabit has been declawed." That led to a deliberately overstated, cartoonish style. For crap-game organizer Nathan Detroit, who was gruff and menacing as played by Bob Hoskins in London, Zaks cast Nathan Lane, a patently harmless hyperkinetic who comes on as a blend of Jackie Gleason and Bugs Bunny...
When Zaks began casting, he believed revivals require stars -- "but after I heard 'I don't think so' a couple of times, I changed my mind." Instead he created a star of his own, choosing Prince as Adelaide, the shopworn showgirl who has been Nathan's forlorn fiance for the past 14 years. She has been building a reputation among insiders since her Tony-nominated turns in Jerome Robbins' Broadway. In the off-Broadway original of Falsettos, now the best new Broadway musical, her portrayal of a middle-class mother abandoned by her husband for another man was compassionate, heartbreaking...