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...unknown "they" who will carry him off to "there." Indeed, while the seven scenes of the drama all unfold in Leopold's living room, and he is the focal point of nearly all the dialogue, Lithgow for the most part persuades us that he is, as his "friend" Bertram (David Gammons) says, the "passive object" of his own life...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Loeb's 'Largo' Impresses | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

...experiment was led by Professor of Surgery Emeritus Dr. William H. Sweet, the then-research fellow Dr. Louis Bakay and the late Dr. Bertram Selverstone. The work was mentioned in a report in the Boston Globe on Sunday...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Third Radiation Study Linked to University | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

...Pegleg, a swallow- tailed lowlife who learned his wiles behind the footlights of some sleazy Weimar cabaret, a la Joel Grey. They are surrounded by weirdos who make the Addams Family look like the Waltons. Among them: Wilhelm's inamorata, the robotically hysterical Kathchen; her fright-wigged father Bertram; an overbearing uncle who, in a hilarious non sequitur, tells the story of how Hemingway sold the movie rights to The Snows of Kilimanjaro; and a dead ancestor in Boris Karloff makeup whose only advice to the living is, "Do what thou wilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Disciples | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Learning From Performers, Acting and Movement Workshop--by Judith Jackson, playwright and performance artist. Cabot House, Bertram Living Room, 53 Shepard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...first quarter. The recession no doubt contributed to the slowdown, but boat sellers complain that shoppers have escaped the tax by buying yachts in the Bahamas. "It's a question now of how long we can hold out until the tax gets repealed," says Werner Kuhnke, a Miami-based Bertram Yacht dealer. Another consequence of the tax, contends the National Marine Manufacturers Association, has been the layoffs of thousands of skilled boatbuilders. "In a nutshell, this tax has been devastating," says Carl Herndon, president of Blackfin Yacht in Fort Lauderdale. "The rich are still rich. But the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Tempest in a Yacht | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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