Word: blockers
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Lawrie, however, earned the highest praise from those who saw him at the combines and in the annual Blue-Gray game thanks to both his pass-catching ability and, more importantly, his competence as a blocker...
...He’s the prototype tight end,” said Siedlecki of his 6’7, 265 lb. former receiver. “He’s a big offensive line type blocker. And he had 72 catches...That’s what people saw in the all-star game, that he’s the best blocker of all of them...
...intermissions! There are two intermissions!” announced Jeremy W. Blocker ’04 as he passed through the Loeb Mainstage audience on Friday night. I had to chuckle when I heard his reminder; I’ve been to more than one Mainstage which couldn’t hold its audience through one intermission, let alone two. But Friday night’s audience was happy to sit through all three acts of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, director Blocker’s rollicking production of Tom Stoppard’s spin on Hamlet. I haven?...
...show succeeds not because of what it does, but because of what it doesn’t do. Unlike a lot of misbegotten Mainstages, it has been neither overthought nor hastily wrought. Blocker has given us a refreshingly safe interpretation of Stoppard’s play, has cast it with uniformly talented actors, and hasn’t tried to pass off a mass of steel scaffolding as a set. If the show wasn’t a little on the long side, I wouldn’t recognize it as a Mainstage...
...Blocker lets Stoppard’s vision pass to the audience unhindered. The absurdist set, by Julian M. Rose ’06, suggests a medieval production of “Laugh-In,” full of portals that slide open and swing shut, and staircases that zigzag to nowhere. It’s an illogical set to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and certainly to the audience, yet the play’s other characters navigate it with ease. It’s both funny and uncanny; in other words, it’s ideally suited to the play...