Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Iowa, which tied for fourth in the Big Ten during the regular season, turned the opening game around with a nine-point string with less than eight minutes...
...have to laugh a lot, said the guitarist as he picked at his C. Rick wished he would stop plucking. The house in Malibu needed paint and new walls. Tomorrow we'll go to Venice, said Sammy. That will make you laugh, said the guitarist. His string broke. I can't play the guitar anyway, he laughed...
Like any melange of little shows tied together by a moral string, this production has its ups and downs. It succeeds when the more talented troupe members play off one another as they move about Peter Miller's functional (if noisy) set. Sam Samuels, Courtney B. Vance and Ralph J. Zito manage most of the evening's best moments, switching roles adeptly and keeping their characters under control. Vance plays animals effectively: as the ass in "The Bremen Town Musicians," he carries you down the road with him and as the flounder in "The Fisherman and His Wife" he slithers...
Choosing to spend time in a number of spots, Carle has raked up an impressive list of accomplishments: a Harvard outdoor field record in the javelin throw (128' 8"), a spot on the National handball team two years running, and selection as first-string all-Ivy soccer goalie this past fall--the first time she'd ever played the sport...
Since Playwright Clark has only minimally rewritten the role, the switch from male to female does result in certain dissonances. It is unlikely that a woman would tell a string of off-color jokes or make raunchy remarks to female nurses...