Word: carliner
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...Rebecca F. Rubins ’05 to the show, as it did a young Leonard Bernstein ’39 who directed the piece at Harvard in 1939. “The music is fascinating—strange but beautiful,” explains cast member Abby A. Carlin ’04. And the work as a whole, as Rubins points out, is a unique piece of musical theater, with music interwoven into the text, unlike the more common format of dialogue interrupted by occasional song and dance...
Harvard hopes that Wilkins’ rookie season sets a precedent for the four freshmen—Moira Weigel, Allison Fast, Tina Brown and Courtney Wallach—entering the fray this season. With gaps left in the middle of the lineup after the graduation of Carlin Wing and Colby Hall, the first years will be expected to strengthen the depth of the team...
...schools of comedy grew out of Lenny Bruce, he says. One is the Establishment comedian represented by Alan King; the other is the younger, edgier, anti-Establishment comic represented by George Carlin. What they have in common is simple: "They're funny." For Seinfeld, that's the gold standard. A young Alan King appears onscreen in a tuxedo, holding an unlit cigar. Seinfeld looks on reverently. "The cigar confers authority, wisdom, arrogance," says Seinfeld, "all key elements of being a comedian...
...George Carlin, he says, "made the language his personal puppet. He took words and phrases and sliced them eight different ways." Richard Pryor, he says, was perhaps the greatest artist of all stand-ups; his stories had beautiful and elaborate structures. Seeing both Carlin and Pryor onscreen, though, you feel the anger simmering beneath their routines. Stand-ups have a quarrel with the universe, a chip on their shoulder that they turn into comedy. "Stand-up is socialized aggression," says...
...doubles, Finicane and Chen lost a close match to Princeton’s team of Kristen Carlin and Celene Chang...