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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first three acts, Redford works with a simple set consisting of a narrow, straight-back throne set on a raised platform. His blocking of each scene subtly underscores the action as it develops in the play...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Sad Tale's Best | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Leontes is one of those daunting Shakespearean leads that is almost impossible to pull off. His jealousy of his wife in the first three acts must grow until he loses the ability to think or function as king, or as human being. After his tyrannical madness, Leontes must reappear in the fifth act and be convincingly penitent and remorseful. He must also make credible the revalation scene in which the 'statue' of his wife, who for 16 years he has thought dead, comes to life from her pedestal...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Sad Tale's Best | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

After Chuck Johnson won the hurdles (Aaron Dean taking third in his first varsity race), Jim Johnson and Ben Midlo placed first and second in the long jump. At the halfway mark in the meet, Harvard had yet to lose an event and owned a 49 1/3-20 2/3 lead...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Tracksters Outrun Eagles; Dixon Records Two Wins | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

While coach Bill McCurdy expected these performances, the unexpected once again turned the meet into a laugher. For the second consecutive week, the Crimson caputed two places in the pole vault, proving that although Dave Randall (first with 12-ft 6 in.) and Greg Froehlich (tied for third with 11 ft.) aren't Geoff Stiles, nobody else around here is, either...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Tracksters Outrun Eagles; Dixon Records Two Wins | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...thinclads raced to an early lead when McNulty, the newly-elected senior class First Marshal, and Scidmore took one-two in the mile...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Tracksters Outrun Eagles; Dixon Records Two Wins | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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