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Phillips intentionally fouled Bajusz on the inbounds pass, and Bajusz hit both free throws to make the margin three again, 74-71. Harvard advanced the ball to mid-court, where it called its final time-out with 18 seconds left to set-up a game-tying three-point attempt...
...This set-up is much to the chagrin of his wife Doris (Sally Kish), a babbling advice columnist who has cancelled her travel plans so she can get some last-minute coverage by a shrewish reporter (Jen Harris). Of course, as in all good farces, it turns out that she and everyone else in the play, including an acne-afflicted dermatologist (Andrew Osborne) and an abandoned son bearing gifts (Chris Reed), are secretly related...
Earlier, White House officials briefed members of the House committee on "the whole set-up" of the secret details of the Iranian arms deal...
Unfortunately, the drama's unusual set-up prevents this revelation from being very affecting; on a platform, the lovers talk and laugh while two "Commentators" intervene to relate, without emotion, the events of the day. The audience is primarily disoriented by their frequent interruptions...
...basic set-up was such that women were second-class citizens," says Maryland resident Shelley Pallay Levi '61. At that time, Radcliffe students lived in dormitories with house mothers while their tutors lived in the Harvard houses with the male undergraduates. "Not having the tutors around made a difference in the intellectual quality of our lives," says Levi, now a travel consultant in the Washington, D.C. area...