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When tenants of the fresh Pond Apartments--commonly known as Rindge Towers--came to last week's council meeting to complain that they were being unjustly forced out of their apartments, Jason J. Timmons, executive vice-president of the Federal Management Co., which runs the apartment complex, was absent because of illness...
Jason J. Timmons, executive vice president of Federal Management Co., Inc., a subsidiary of the building's owner, Schochet Associates, was absent from the hearing last night after being "taken with an untimely illness," according to a letter he sent to the council...
...show in the contrast between the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and that of Celia Coplestone. The play both begins and ends with one of the Chamberlayne's cocktail parties; they represent the decision to struggle on with the drab existence of whiskey and potato crisps. Celia is absent from the second party; unable to accept the constraints of such a life, she has left to seek peace in her own, absolute terms...
...understudy also misses the lessons to be learned from a live audience-for example, discovering where the laughs are and where they are not. Beyond that, the understudy must often overcome audience hostility. Many people demand their money back when a star is absent; some of those who stay are belligerent. When he comes in to play Joseph, says Voet, he can sometimes sense an unfriendly feeling: "Show me you are worth the $381 paid for my ticket...
...comes to transvestitism. The fat actor also eats from a Purina dog chow bag and smiles eagerly at the expression "you're beating a dead horse." Agent Orange (Nancy Frantz) bursts out of a frigid, schoolteacher's exterior in the sultry song Mean Streak. Dean Dean (Phil Kraft), the absent-minded administrator, sits naked in a kiddie pool and sings to his rubber duck about the comparative rigors...