Word: clara
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Victorious But Frustrated. Directed by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, the Royal Shakespeare Company's production is impeccable. Vivien Merchant (Mrs. Harold Pinter), who is to Pinter's plays what Clara Schumann was to her husband's music, plays the woman with a mixture of hauteur and girlish romanticism. She makes the character both menacing and slightly spurious. Colin Blakely is blessedly funny and touching as the bluff husband whose male pride is aroused but baffled. He is apparently victorious but eventually frustrated. In the role of the mysterious wife, Dorothy Tutin catches the unconscious...
...PRODUCTION is well acted; movement is highly disciplined, line readings are tightly paced. The dialogues between Bernie Duffy, as the high school student who doesn't like cars, and Clara Sztucinski, is his crippled companion, are consistently the best in the production. They create a sense of two people too alike to not understand each other, yet too unsure of themselves to do anything but play games...
...Connor Hospital, he had struck up a friendship with a young nurse named Lualan O'Connor, now 30. "Hospitals are such timeless places," he recalls. "It seems like such a dreamlike thing." A sympathetic priest married them quietly. Duryea settled his wife in nearby Santa Clara. A son came along 1½ years later, and the couple named him Paul, after Pope Paul VI. When Duryea was transferred to St. Peter's, 55 miles away, he visited his family mostly on days...
Mitchell set the Harvard records in both the 200-free (1:45.9) and 500-free (4:47.4) this winter, but was not eligible for the NCAA's because of an Ivy League rule forbidding freshman participation in such events. At Pullman, Mitchell will represent Santa Clara Swimming Club...
...home in Palo Alto, Calif., working out with his Santa Clara teammates. Before leaving, Mitchell spent the toughest three weeks of his swimming career training at the IAB. The strain resulted not only from the long workouts but from practicing alone...