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...panel included Lisa Drake, an environmental engineer; Penny Ellard '88, a project manager and software engineer at Bolt, Beranek and New-man, a computer technology firm; and Lorna Gibson, an MIT materials engineer professor...
...placebo effect," says Atwater, who has tried taking shark cartilage to little effect, "but it's working for me." Jim Colbert, a top winner on the Senior P.G.A. Tour, attributes his success to the dollar bill-size magnets taped to his ailing back. And Washington Redskins wide receiver Henry Ellard has been using magnets on his legs for years...
...Georgian community which is suddenly electrified by the arrival of a "foreigner." The audience meets Betty Meeks (Jeanne Simpson), proprietor of the fishing lodge in which the action takes place; the Reverend David Lee (Richard Claflin) and his fiance Catherine Simms (Bina Martin); Catherine's exuberant but uneducated brother, Ellard (Ian Lithgow); Ku Klux Klan member Owen Musser (Glenn Kessler); and military man Forggy Leseur (J.C Wolfgang Murad), who brings the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Tom Hughes) to Tilghman County and suggests that in order to avoid conversation he pretend to be a foreigner...
...cooped up ex-debutante who tries to amuse herself by imagining names for the children of British royalty. Her startling first entrance--"I'm pregnant. You're not so sterile after all."--is appropriately tough. Yet Catherine never becomes a caricature. The audience trusts her compassion for Charlie and Ellard...
Lithgow avoids reducing Ellard to a Georgian stereotype. His wide chewy expressions and drawly English lessons--"Bah-urd" for board, "Faw-Werk" for fork--are hilarious. But Lithgow also convinces the audience of Ellard's softness and struggle to learn the language he teaches...