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Midway through the fourth quarter, John McNiff and Scott Oliaro combined to move the ball from Cornell's 35 yard line to Harvard's 30-yard line for a Cornell first down to set up the winning score...
...Dvorak's Trio in E minor (Opus 90, "Dumky"). The Haydn and Brahms are both lyrical pieces, with standard formats of two moderately-fast outer movements which act as a frame for the inner character-piece movements. The Dumky trio is unusual and uniquely beautiful, however, as a set of six successive movements which share the same folk-themes. The choice of pieces on the program created an unusual--but ultimately successful--combination...
...play begins with three "sister sojourners" who set out in 1888 to explore a land "somewhere east of Australia, and west of Peru," and wind up in 1955 at a cheesy lounge called "Nicky Peligrosa's Paradise Bar and Grill." The business of the play is getting from point A to point Z, leading the audience through a bizarre and highly cerebral trek of the imagination. Ultimately, only one of the heroines decides to press on past 1955 and into the "boundless" future (which is actually the present time inhabited by the audience), but in doing so she delivers...
...their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...
This is essentially a textual flaw; Fox's rendering of the play is extremely faithful to the playwright's vision. The set is minimal but artful; all the stage directions are followed closely with one exception; the performers effectively adhere to their particular temperaments as defined by the playwright; and the speech is simple, plain and relatively unaffected...