Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harper, for example, who performs three startingly different roles with dash, bravura, and intelligence, is largely responsible for bringing off "The Drowned Man," an amusing episode about a sailor who'll drown himself for 60 kopecks. Jacques Semmelman plays a decent, if uninspired, Chekhov (the narrator), but in this contest his straightforward warmth practically saves the show. There are fleeting good moments from Stewart Chrition and Barbara Bejoian in "The Seduction" episode; Chrition, especially, with his macho-male-deodorant-commercial voice, would have been very impressive had the pace of the scene been less lethargic. Marina Grossi is exuberant...
...second half. After Jamie Egasti won the opening face-off, Mike Faught got the all-important, momentum-creating first goal after the half (the first of five for Faught) on a feed from Martin with only a minute gone. When Martin added his third goal of the contest another 70 seconds later, the Crimson was up 7-2 and looking good...
Although the contest features the two premier lightweight crews of the East, the Radcliffe squad is not physically peaking for the confrontation with its archrival...
...NOTEBOOK: Coach Loyal Park was pleased with the squad's first northern outing of the year, and surprisingly not concerned with the Crimson's meager total of four hits in the contest. "They're a good ball club, and we were a little anxious about opening today. It's a natural thing," he said...
Meanwhile, there's lots of good "stuff" (says West Coast correspondent Chuck Barris, our candidate for the Elvis Look-Alike Contest) in the Boston area to keep you kiddies off the street until reading period. Closest to home is Tom Paxton, appearing at Jonathan Swift's on April 9. If you're up for journeying into Boston, the Paradise is featuring Willy Alexander and the Boom Boom Band on April 6, and none other than Carly Simon April 9-11. Nobody does it better, and at $9.50 it's worth it, if you can afford...