Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with amiable sidekicks, the leads must carry the show, for they have the bulk of the dialogue, not to mention the songs. In this production, happily, one of the four leads is flawless and the other three are perfectly adequate or better. Crystal Terry, as Adelaide, the faithful and dumb eternal fiancee, provides the best musical performance I have seen at Harvard. Terry boasts a marvelous voice and uncannily sharp timing--and can dance, too. All these talents, combined with her formidable stage presence, make for a great job here; we can only hope for more soon...
...wonderful to see Olivier this often these days, and it almost doesn't matter that the movies are so bad. If only he could liven up every dumb thriller or grace every little comedy. And if only he could go back to the stage too, and do Lear and Prospero and any new, good play that comes along. Screw Hitler--let's clone Oliver...
PROFILE: Big, strong, dumb. And above all else fictitious, or else I'd be dead...
QUOTE: "I'm getting a little bit sick and tired of all this horse manure about Cornell football players being just a bunch of dumb jocks. We have a pissah football team this year, and being an Ag major ain't no piece of cake. It's not like I'm one of those wimps in hotel management or something...
...Susanna said there are times when the different life experiences set up a wall between her and younger undergraduates. When at lunch with other older friends, she talks about supermarkets and other day-to-day subjects. But "I would feel so dumb if an undergraduate heard me. I would feel inferior in some way, like I sounded like a housewife...