Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improvisation. Sellars' poster for the play is an unpretentious and quite ineffective quick Flair pen sketch. The program is a jumble of mad typing the night before the opening. All the orchestra seats in the Loeb have been moved backstage so that half of the audience sits at the bottom of the breath-taking canyon-like flyspace of the theater, and they are encouraged to move to different seats during the performance. At one point in the second act, the curtains threaten to tumble down and enclose the backstage audience completely, only to creep sheepishly and mischievously back up again...
...bottom line? There's no way to report a 19-2 score without resorting to the old football analogy. Now, had the final been 23-2 it would have been another thing. Then everyone would have assumed that it was simply a Crimson-Independent affair...
...Crimson linksters parlayed strong rounds from the bottom players on their ladder to swamp MIT and Bates yesterday in a rare match play format at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton...
...fairly wafts across the stage. Tim Reuben is an appropriately ponderous Theseus, and Jeffrey Rothstein, struggling valiantly with a wrinkled, Bozo-esque bald-cap, nevertheless succeeds as the crabby, meddling Egeus. All five of the Athenian workmen-turned-actors give good performances, but David Anderson as the bellowing, overeager Bottom deserves special notice. It is easy to play this role as pure slapstick. Anderson goes beyond mere egotism and develops Bottom as a buffoon--grabby and self-centered, but well-meaning, without snobbery and pretensions. We get the feeling that if Bottom was accused of his faults, he would stand...
...buckets, ice chests and garden tools. "Hey, you know where I can get a deal on a wash kettle?" one city slicker asked General Store Owner Odies Schatte. "You're not gonna find one," said Schatte. "People bought them all up, drilled holes in the bottom and turned them into planters. If you had one, you'd probably be able to get $150 for it." Which was precisely what the visitor had in mind...