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...varsity wrestling team was downed last night by Springfield, 28-9, in the matmen's first match of the season. The Crimson grapplers in the lighter weights did well, but Harvard was blasted by the superb wrestlers who man the middle weights for Springfield...
...ACTING in this show is superb throughout, from Brian Bedford's cold portrayal of the cynical Dysart to Humbert Allen Astredo's rendering of the nervous father, shuffling about, pulling his hat round in circles between his thumb and forefinger. Bedford's performance is best, although it was marred last Friday night by a great deal of spluttering and spittle in enunciation. As narrator, Dysart controls most of the ironic pitch and timbre of Equus, and Bedford brings to the role the kind of laconic understatement that's necessary for it to succeed. In the Broadway production I saw last...
After graduating in 1932, he took a series of jobs, eventually becoming a sportscaster at radio station WHO in Des Moines. He was a superb announcer of major league baseball games. Guided by only the sketchy summaries from ballparks, Reagan would fashion a gripping and imaginative narrative for his listeners. But his goal was always Hollywood. In 1937, while accompanying the Chicago Cubs to spring training in California, he wangled a screen test at Warner Bros, and landed a $200-a-week contract. His good looks and fine physique also led University of Southern California art students to select...
Satyajit Ray's superb and achingly simple Distant Thunder concerns the famine in Bengal in 1943. It is a matter of record: 5 million people died. Numbers as huge as this can be dangerous. A tragedy of such magnitude becomes an event abstracted by arithmetic. But Ray's artistry alters the scale. His concentrating on just a few victims of the famine causes such massive loss to become real, immediate. Ray makes numbers count...
...last twenty minutes of the game, Radcliffe offensive and defensive play was superb, keeping the ball almost exclusively in BU territory. Capitalizing on the Terriers' inability to clear the ball, Karen Linsley scored a second goal as her drive ricocheted off the pads of an anguished BU goalie...