Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rocker & Rock. Walton remains the calm at the center of the storm, living his life as he always has in his rented, five-bedroom communal home with Sports Radicals Jack and Micki Scott, his wife Susan, his l½year-old son Adam, his brother Andy and various drop-in friends. Says Walton: "I don't think I've changed. I still have the same values and interests." Rising by 10 a.m., he typically breakfasts on a quart of juice, a vegetable omelet and rice. On game days, he arrives at the Memorial Coliseum ahead of his teammates...
Students in Adam's Music 1 "Introduction to Music" said yesterday Adams thanked his students for their support in his tenure battle in his final lecture yesterday...
...that God might be a she instead of a he is amusing to play with. And if the first woman had gone by description alone, she might, like Ravenal's Eve, have assumed that the forbidden fruit was a cranberry and have served up apple pies with innocent impunity. Adam proves to be inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that he dibs "flounder" has to be fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss, who is bad in a soulful rather than a derogatory way. When...
...chorus of beasts moves as though there weren't enough elbow room to carry out Linda Rabhan's distinctive and varied choreography. Nonetheless, a tango in which Ravenal as Eve dances Richard Bangs's petulant Adam prone and a hammy vaudeville routine involving Adam and the animals are striking set pieces which make their point visually and musically more effectively than much of the verbal exchange...
...Loeb--it is in the person, rather than the role, of Ravenal. She lends Eve assertive and wistful self-consciousness simultaneously. Hers is the only voice that distinguishes the musical score, with ample range and appealing tremolo. Still, she has her script to contend with and, as Adam remarks, husband-wife shtick inevitably prevails...