Word: clickings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear idea backing it, the cast and crew end up carrying a dead weight. Sometimes a highly talented group of performers and techs manages to breathe life into a show that can't stand on its own feet. More often, as in After Hours, the performance just doesn't "click," and although the singing and dancing entertain, the evening ends up seeming a little pointless...
When Orren takes to the podium in the fall, he will have plenty of stories to tell--like the one about a campaign that started out invincible, soon found it had more Achilles heels that a baseball team, and finally, last week, began to click again...
Watching the plays that just didn't click, the leads that were agonizingly frittered away, the errant passes and shots, you could hear the post-mortems even as the patient lapsed into a coma. The 5-3 loss at Princeton, when Harvard aimed (or misaimed) nearly 50 shots on goal. The blown 3-0 Beanpot advantage over B.C. The see-saw battles in New Haven and Hanover...
...elusive goal, the failure to convert pressure into something that shows up on the scorecard, leaves a nagging anxiety even with a team, like Harvard, that is unified and confident of its own abilities. "That's the frustration," commented one player, "you never know whether things are going to click...
...only sounds are the creak of rigging and the occasional click of ball point pens. Twenty-four students are quietly writing answers on their final exam...