Word: cake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guns that timed the junior's fastball consistently in the high 80s and once or twice in the 90s. What impressed them most was that this is how Darling looked with a 14-run lead, not exactly pressure conditions. He blew down the Crimson like candles on a birthday cake, fanning eight, allowing just two singles until he lost his concentration in the seventh. "Easily the best we've seen," said Martelli...
Women, of course, cause the most gnawing and perplexing hungers. Yet the men scarcely begin the tales of wives and lovers when their stomachs start to rumble. The refrigerator, "our ice mother," is raided. Its contents-salads, chicken, turkey, salmon, pecan pie and chocolate cake-are devoured, though they are meant to feed the host's wife and friends...
...small semi-circle at the rear of the stage: around the perimeter, pink columns support a placard bearing one half of a red cutout heart. It's a satisfying moment when the significance of the set suddenly becomes clear: the whole thing is like a giant wedding cake...
Ignoring for the moment that this schtick with the bakers is so tiresome and hammed-up that even the children in the audience cringe: the scene destroys the clever suggestion of designer Ken Moya's simple wedding cake. Furthermore, the overture, given a first-rate reading under Joyce Bynum's direction, is relegated to the role of mere background music...
...assumption that continually bogs down an otherwise delightful production, that if the audience isn't kept constantly amused by broad gestures and incessant slapstick, it will become bored and confused. It's an unfortunate approach to take: surely the Agassiz Theater crowd is capable of picking up the wedding-cake suggestion and content to listen to the overture undistracted. But from start to finish, this is a Patience for the impatient...