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...score three goats in a 45-minute span is not an amazing feat. But the Elis, who finished second in the Ivy League (5-1-1) in their best season (10-2-3) since a string of glory years in the last '50s, did it with only three shots in the final stanza...
Following his Ph.D. Hoffman received a string of fellowships that began with more gamma ray research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and eventually led to a three-year stint with a prestigious astronomical organization in England, where he met his wife, Barbara...
Birdboot and Moon, as Stoppard has named the critics, have obsessions that dominate their thinking throughout the night. Moon is a second-string critic crazy with hatred for the first-string. "Perhaps he's dead at last, or trapped in a lift somewhere or succumbed to amnesia, wandering the land with his turn-ups stuffed with ticket stubs," he muses. Birdboot is interested only in ogling young starlets and keeping smut out of the theatre. Fulfilling what must be every playwright's ultimate fantasy, Stoppard uses the self-centered antics of these two to mock the whole business of theatre...
...taking notes of the set before the play begins is actually part of the cast. Only with the arrival of Birdboot, clad in yellow, green and plaid and munching on chocolates, does the audience get its first hint that something unusual is afoot. The pair discusses Higgs, the first-string, and launches us into a fast-paced, clever hour-and-a-half's entertainment which only occasionally verges on the flip...
...Minutemen spent most of the final half adjusting to the wind, playing with their second- string goalkeeper in the nets...