Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English department got into the act Tuesday, voting to offer Brustein a post in the department if he is appointed director of the Loeb...
...supporting case was enthusiastic and enjoyable, especially Heitzi Epstein and Judy Milstein as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Together they managed to salvage the first act from total oblivion. Andy Sellon was a riot as the pedantic Humpty-Dumpty. Simon Goldhill and Caryl Yanow as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle were also amusing. Julie Zickefoose and Clare McGorrigan as the White and Red Queens supplied some spirited moments and the chorus was delightful, especially in the Lobster Quadrille dance. Cindy Cardon as the vamping, tap-dancing mutton charmed even those who had given up hope after two and a half hours...
Love occurs frequently in The Bright Lights. She compares acting to love-making; "to act without love is cruel" is a credo she tries to teach her drama students at Julliard. When Seldes discusses the students, she transforms herself once again; face and voice now radiate maternal warmth. She understands their obsessions, their drives; she sympathizes with the "attempt to create a theater life before the theater accepts you." Such empathy comes naturally to her: "it's not possible to teach without relating to the students as human beings." From excitable little girl to understanding mother-figure, her metamorphosis...
...never cried before over a game, but that one was just too much to handle," said Howard, a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator from Eliot House. "We worked so hard, and the team really has its act together. It's a damn shame...
Howard also felt that her rah-rah style of pep and emotion didn't wash with her upperclassmates. "It's an individual psyche here, not a group thing. Everybody had to be laid back and act like they were cool," said Howard, who went on to play varsity basketball that first year before joining the track team as a junior...