Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by satirist Elaine May. Adaptation, Miss May's own play, is cleverly staged like a TV contest, with Gabriel Dell playing the adaptation game from birth to death. James Coco gives an enormously resourceful performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a humiliating induction examination in Terrence McNally's Next...
...customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from Arizona," he did devote 18-hour workdays campaigning to making it to Congress...
...Cornell-Brown contest is this weekend in Providence, and Cornell meets the Tigers seven days later in Ithaca, away from the exhuberant fans at Princeton. The Big Red can do Penn, Harvard, and themselves, the three teams who have lost twice, two big favors by winning these games. Even if Cornell can win one, it would be appreciated...
Harvard went on to win its two remaining Ivy contest to finish with a 3-2 record, but Princeton emerged as the champion since no one else was able to beat the Tigers...
From a spectator point of view, the lacrosse contest was different because lacrosse is a team game, whereas fencing and tennis consist of many individual matches. To watch the exceptional team-work and then the reaction of the reaction of the group as a whole to the crucial goals was a stirring experience...