Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BECAUSE Sister Mary" is only about an hour long, the theater offers another Durang comedy, The Actor's Nightmare to flesh out the evening. A mildly humorous play, The Actor's Nightmare is based on one very clever idea that nonetheless runs out of steam very fast. The story opens in medias res when George Spelvin, played by Jeff Brooks, finds himself backstage of a theater where an abrupt stage manager informs him that the play's leading man has been injured and George must take his place. Unfortunately George doesn't even know his own name much less...
Break dancing has been banned from certain shopping malls, sidewalks and no doubt countless living rooms as a public nuisance. But the ghetto-born dance fad, with its twirls, windmills and head spins, has shown remarkable staying power. As a result, dozens of entrepreneurs are making a fast break to cash in on its widespread popularity among teenagers by spinning off such accessories as clothing, how-to books and video games...
Contrasting Harvard and B.U., Thomson said B.U. "Is trying to move fast and is doing so successfully, Harvard's danger is complacency." He said his only problem has proved to be Boston's chronic parking shortage...
...choice is not surprising Much of the story's appeal lies in a kind of begrudging admiration by the public toward these men of aristocratic background and Oxbridge education who, even as they rose through the ranks of national service, held fast to the radical beliefs they had gained as youths...
...stickwomen had trouble adjusting to the field at Durham, Mabrey said. While the Crimson is used to playing on a smooth, slow field, the pitch at UNH is "fast and bumpy," the Harvard coach said...