Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Purlie, Leverett House and Black CAST's current offering, offers just such an enigma. This rambunctious musical comedy about race relations in the last-1950s South had a respectable Broadway run and has since bubbled cheerfully on numerous regional and school stages. Purlie's infectious and vigorous score, its complement of genuinely funny lines ("College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back") and its unassailable but not over-bearing message of racial dignity and hope account for its remarkable drawing power...
...Neill has been blessed with a strong complement of actors and singers in the lead roles, but only two have a crucial element that earns them special praise. Tom Uskali as the Pirate King rivals Groucho in his mastery of greasepaint-mustache manipulation but never descends to slapstick. Uskali's perpetual air of bemusement gives lines like "our revenge will be swift and terrible" a wonderful screwball appeal...
...Cambridge, city workers fought against not only the snow budget cutbacks forced by Proposition 2 1/2. Working with half the usual complement of plows and shovels. Conrad Fagone, director of the public works department, concentrated first on clearing city streets; schools will not be plowed out until this morning, and as a result classes will be cancelled in city schools today...
...Crimson's biggest challenge on a schedule which features all the traditional contests--Yale. Princeton, and Army. Although the Tigers lost national champion John Nimick to graduation (runner-up: Harvard's Brad Desaulniers). Princeton successfully recruited the second-and third-ranked juniors in the country, and the freshmen complement an already talented group. Said Fish. "Through the middle, they've got some guys that beat us very badly last year...
...relationships among Square concessions often comes closer to family feeling than competition. Stores and restaurants like Brigham's and Mug'n Muffin--which Higgins feels "complement" rather than harm his business--send him emergency messengers when they run out of supplies. When Brigham's needs milk in midafternoon, Higgins shrugs and sells a harried employee all he can spare, about 45 half-gallon cartons. "In ten minutes someone will come in and be bummed out because there's no cream," he predicts, "but what...