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...just wanted that, wouldn't I take the 125 college lectures offered me? Wouldn't I just go to Times Square and walk a block and stop traffic? Ain't worried about the spotlight. Ain't worried about money. Ain't worried about all the heavyweights today who can't fight. Ain't worried about nothin' but being immortal...
...current offering, offers just such an enigma. This rambunctious musical comedy about race relations in the last-1950s South had a respectable Broadway run and has since bubbled cheerfully on numerous regional and school stages. Purlie's infectious and vigorous score, its complement of genuinely funny lines ("College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back") and its unassailable but not over-bearing message of racial dignity and hope account for its remarkable drawing power...
...wants to stop short of the bunkers." "Nearly everyone else has used a three or four-wood." "Jackson has no confidence." "Yeah, I guess you were right about him being past his prime." "Past his prime? I take it back. If a guy uses a three-iron here, he ain't got no prime...
Going into last night's Harvard-Boston University hockey game, you might have said that things just ain't like they used to be around Walter Brown Arena, the Terriers' home of the past ten seasons. And you would have been right...
...first play, Tennessee, by Romulus Linney, a frontier family arrives at its recently-acquired shack ("We're here, ain't we?") and the father, a weatherbeaten, Abe Lincolnish icon of American spirit, makes long, slow speeches about how he "growed up crawlin' on a dirt floor like a goddamned ant" and now that the war's over he's gonna harness these here fifty acres; his wife stands awkwardly on the porch and pulls at her shawl (for the entire play, in fact); and his well-rouged son chimes in about cutting the brush over yonder. Then a badly made...