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...weight the merits of an experimental production, a reviewer would need, firstly, more than 18 inches of space, and secondly, a familiarity with the text and the tradition of the play's performance, so that the reviewer knows what is experimental abou the new performance. (Such knowledge might have helped Caroline Chaffin recognize the As You Like It sequence in Straight lines, which she is "not sure" she saw. It was the part where the actors began to speak in blank verse and then introduced themselves as characters from As You Like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewing Ex Shows Discourages Innovation | 3/14/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard Senior 24 are: Ahmed M. Abou-Zamen, Cheng, Constantine N. Costes, Aaron DiAntonio, Paul T. Donohoe, Alexander E. Dreier, Andrew R. Elby, Jonathan L. Feng, Raymond S. Flournoy, Steven J. Frucht, Handel, Daniel L. Hurewitz, Steven Joffe, Joshua M. Kosowsky, Joshua Lee, Mark H. Levine, William G. Malley, Kevin P. Moriarty, Robert R. Noyer, Andrew J. Powell, Gary D. Rowe, Wagner, Jonathan S. Weissman, and Samuel...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Inductees Announced | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...thousand, three-thousand, five-thousand word lashing that doesn't just sting for the regulation seventy-two hours but rankles all his life. Zuckerman now had his: to reassure in his quotable storehouse till he died, the unkindest review of all, embedded indelibly (and just about as useful) as "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Annabel Lee," the first two poems he'd had to memorize for a high-school English class...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Maturing Slowly | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

...night, and by Wednesday morning Wendy had found work with a water-cooler firm. The job lasted 13 years. "Then the company moved off and left us," he says. "For eleven years I sold cars until sales got bad." Now working for a construction company, he says, "People talk abou going back, but it's mostly memories talking, and those of hard times. How did Dolly Parton put it? 'No amount of money could buy from me the memories that I have of then, and no amount of money could pay me to go back and live through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Detroit: A Dream on Hold | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

With a wry smile, Preston Davenport 78, looks over the dwindling crowd. In 35 Octobers here, his Ayrshires and Holsteins have won a slew of blue ribbons, anc he has come to know a thing or two abou fairgoers. "Everyone has been saying how much they are going to miss it," he says quietly. "But, you'll see. In a month or so they'll be onto something else." That is the comfort of progress-and its regrettable price. -By Joelle Attinger

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: A Fair Goes Dark | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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