Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dumb Waiter" by Harold Pinter At the Loeb Experimental Theatre through July...
...needed a stiff drink after the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's presentation of Harold Pinter's play, "The Dumb Waiter." With remarkable restraint, Aaron Zelman and Mark Fish (the two characters Gus and Ben, respectively) pulled off what easily could have been a flat, boring piece of comedy. Under the direction of Chris Scully, they brought subtlety and nuance to the characters, fleshing out the obscure, ambiguous script to produce suspense and intensity...
...whoever has turned on Gus. This innocent man may fall victim to the evil which he has sensed but cannot find the words to explain. It may be that he, and not the old elevator shaft with its moveable shelf which sends the message of death, is the actual dumb waiter, stupidly waiting...
...Yabba-dabba-dumb" -- Boston Globe...
Ross Perot's speech didn't play well at Harvard. But he isn't dumb--he knew it wouldn't. It will play well in my hometown also. But now Perot can add in a line: "I told all this to those people up at Harvard, where your future politicians come from, and they just laughed...