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Kalinoski produced his own margin of victory in the eighth. Following walks to Ignacio and Cherry, the fastball artist tripled into the right field corner. An error by shortstop Dennis Crowley on a hard-hit ground ball allowed Kalinoski to score Harvard's seventh...
With the game apparently wrapped up, Kalinoski showed signs of tiring in the ninth as he lost some of his speed and control. A walk issued to Tom Migliaccio and consecutive singles by Jack Freeman and Crowley scored two tallies. With two out, pitcher Jeff Sones singled to bring the tying run to the plate, but Kalinoski forced VanderVeer to ground out to short and saved the victory...
THERE IS A limit to how much pain a person can take. After a certain point, you must either scream your lungs out or go crazy. Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band pushes both its characters and its audience within inches of that breaking point. It is one of the mammoth achievements in recent American theatrical history...
While Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party, the play neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in an heterosexual world. Rather, playwright Crowley sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of the gay life to lets us draw our own conclusions...
...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the play's second act, Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot identify with the play's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character say to Alan, "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...