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...Wimbledon showing favoritism toward top seed Andre Agassi? Or is BORIS BECKER being weird? "It cannot just be a coincidence that it is always Agassi at 2 p.m. on Centre Court," said Becker, who played Centre Court only once this year (and lost). "I think Nike has something to do with it." Wimbledon officials denied the charges...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
David Mamet's cryptic, Kafkaesque An Interview takes place between the Attorney (Paul Guilfoyle) and the Attendant (Gerry Becker). Theirs is an encounter between a terrier and a sphinx: lots of barking on one side, stony silence on the other. The Attorney has apparently been summoned to defend his life, and as his exasperation rises, Guilfoyle displays a wonderfully mobile range of faces: puzzlement, gloating self-assertion, crumpled resignation. If An Interview finally seems like a one-joke drama, it's dexterous enough to dispense a little wallop of spooky uneasiness...
Elaine May's Hotline is brief too, but with all its abusive, foul-mouthed yelling it feels long. Linda Lavin portrays a despairing prostitute who phones a suicide-prevention center, where she reaches an overconfident staff member (played, again deftly, by Becker). May places considerable demands on her actors. For one thing, she asks the drama to drag, literally: after swallowing handfuls of pills, Lavin crawls around her apartment, moaning wisecracks. For another, May has contrived a tale that, in a compressed space, moves from squalor to redemption. That the ending works as well as it does suggests that there...
...have friends at other colleges and universities, and [compared to them] the Christian groups at Harvard are really strong and growing," says Ivy A. Ku '98, a member of the Asian-American Bible Study.CrimsonRebecca L. BennettNATE S. BECKER '98, GREGORY Y. FUNG '95 and JENNIFER RODRIGUEZ '96 at a Christian Fellowship Bible study yesterday...