Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even without two wrestlers from last season's 10-8 squad (3-3 Ivies), Alex Konovalchik at 190 lbs. and Scott Beck at 142 lbs., the Crimson has ample young talent to fill in their wrestling shoes...
What holds this lengthy and often incoherent collection of dramas together is a series of winning performances from actors who believe so strongly in what they are saying that we can't help nodding our heads in agreement, even when individual lines and actions are incomprehensible...
Though director Jeremy Blumenthal has assembled an excellent cast overall, certain performances are especially appealing. In Shanley's Welcome to the Moon, Marwan Haddad perfectly juxtaposes the roles of an insecure teenager and a man who can't even kill himself successfully, switching from adolescent angst to teary hysteria with ease...
Greg Schaffer gives another of the production's most powerful performances. As the Cowboy in one scene from Welcome to the Moon, even Schaffer's simplest declarations ("Yes, I've killed a man.") are hilarious. In The Zoo Story, his passionate portrayal of Jerry, the embittered New Yorker who believes that "God turned his back on the whole thing some time ago," leaves the audience as fascinated by his theories as it is disgusted by their substance. Schaffer's mimed battles with the landlady's dog are especially superb. He bites off his words and takes pleasure in the revulsion...
Catamount Alert: The Harvard women'sbasketball team, looking to even its record at3-3, will square off against Vermont tomorrownight at 7:30 p.m. in Briggs Cage. The Crimson iscoming off an impressive win over Hartford at theCivic Center, and the bomb squad will be lookingto light it up again on the home court...