Word: captains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening scene of the ART's latest production, a boorish captain implores his barber-orderly, Johann Christian Woyzeck, to slow down while shaving him: "Not so fast, one thing after another. You're making me quite dizzy." The orderly, a fidgety and anxious troll of a man, paces back and forth in the spotlight, etching out the confines of the circle. Surrounded by darkness, he nervously darts to his washbowl and glances out into the audience with a fearful and ominous visage. Woyzeck cannot and will not slow down...
Other players serve more as bizarre scenery than as other personalities: a half-man, half-creature in a tavern, and a comrade of Woyzeck who ultimately serves as a straight man for comedic tangents in the performance. Finally, the Captain (Charles Levin), more obnoxious than oppressive, has too few lines and too little opportunity for expression to develop the force of his character...
...take classes together occasionally," said men's basketball captain, David Demian. "But I do that with my other friends...
...great to beat Princeton," said junior captain Ivy Pochoda. "They gave us eight very tough matches, but we were able to pull through and win the title...
After falling behind 11-0 after three matches, the Crimson appeared ready to make a run for it. Junior co-captain Joel Friedman dispatched Shawn Bradley at the 142-pound weight class to put Harvard on the board. Freshman Joey Killar then took the captain's example to heart, defeating his opponent 4-1 and cutting the Cornell lead to four points...