Word: berkoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships held here at the Indiana University Natatorium, Harvard Co-Captain David Berkoff captured his second NCAA championship in three years, grabbing the gold medal in the 100-yd. backstroke and setting another national record...
...Berkoff's victory, combined with his second place showing in the 200 backstroke, helped the Harvard men's swimming team finish in 17th place overall...
Additionally, four Harvard swimmers received All-America honors, the most ever in Coach Joe Bernal's 11-year reign. Berkoff, Co-Captain Keith Kaplan and sophomores Jonathan Manson and Greg Tull each earned theaward, thanks to the Crimson's fifth-place finishin the 200 medley relay...
...Berkoff manages to convey the essence of the dilemma for Gregor's parents and sister, albeit without the least sympathy for their natural anxiety and revulsion. He is far more interested in portraying them as grasping and money mad, in a Marxist gloss on the plight of the worker. They are so coarse and reprehensible -- more animalistic when eating than the bug in the back bedroom , -- that there is no point of connection for the audience, certainly no creative tension between expecting the family to take a noble course and knowing why it succumbs to a selfish...
...quite right to say the performances are bad. Presumably at Berkoff's behest, they are as exaggerated as in a Victorian melodrama, the emotional colors underlined by music as tinkly or percussive as in Beijing opera. In a further attempt to weight the scales in favor of the sensitive outcast, Baryshnikov's speeches are candidly written and delivered with touching directness. Most remarkable, however, are his agility and grace in evoking the lumbering, graceless creature. Skittering across the floor, or toppled over backward and trying to right himself, or dangling from the spider web of piping that represents a ceiling...