Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time that Third-Grader Brian wrote a paper for his writing class in Atkinson, N.H., it began like this: "I have a problem with my ribs. If I get hurt on my left side I can't breathe." Prodded to think it out more carefully by his teacher, University of New Hampshire Education Professor Donald Graves, Brian realized he was trying to describe a past event, not a current pain. On his second attempt he wrote: "Once when I was in second grade, I was on a seesaw and fell off! I can't breathe!" Better...
...Harvard 7:06.4 (Bow Howard Rosenfeld, Fugere Lynch, Compbell Rogers, Andreas Fverbruch, Jamie Fargo, Richard Atkinson, David Reavill, stoke Alex Chatfield, cox Dan Simon); 2. Yale 7:12.6; 3. Northeastern 7:15.0; 4. Pennsylvania 7:16.0; 5. Syracuse 7:18.3; 6. Cornell...
...face would light up when he saw the right person. I would keep an eye on Gene's face and Bill's pad to get a sense of what was going on." Finally the six were chosen: Remak Ramsay to play the stuffy lawyer and Linda Atkinson for his wife, who always had a cause like saving Grand Central Terminal from the developers; Michael Ayr as the unbusinesslike architect and Jill Eikenberry as his aristocratic Italian wife; Luis Avalos for a comical Latin bartender and Evelyn Mercado as the maid he lusted after...
There is never enough time for perfection, particularly off-Broadway. The cast did not even see the set until the day before the Feb. 27 dress rehearsal. "It was like we had just barely moved into a house, but were having 150 people for dinner," says Linda Atkinson. At 8 p.m. the audience was in place in the 250-seat theater of Marymount Manhattan College on East 71st Street, which the Phoenix calls home. Saks gave a little speech, asking for consideration: "Things are pretty rough, and we may have to stop. Please be patient and give the actors your...
...style of play is mean and nasty, and I am going to beat people physically and mentally, but in no way am I going down in the record book as a cheap-shot artist." He explains the now-outlawed "Hook" tackle taught to him by fellow Safety George Atkinson as "simply flexing your biceps and trying to catch the receiver's head in the joint between the forearm and the upper arm. The purpose of the Hook was to strip the receiver of the ball, his helmet, his head and his courage." The best hit of his career, Tatum...