Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first position, freshman Lisa Harrison, using new forehand and backhand grips, swept her match...
Harrison and Corrigan took over the first two slots because of the absence of Becky Tung and Margo McGlade, who were competing--with little success, it turned out--at the Princeton Invitational Saturday...
Ellie Cunningham, at fifth position, used corner shots "for the first time in my life" to take her match...
...show's first three acts are brilliant, the blocking simple and elegant and the acting convincing. The first three acts are a sad tale, "best for winter." In the fourth act, the play metamorphoses into a springtime world of romance and comedy: Redford's interpretation of this act is fit only for the Ziegfeld follies. He has included kick lines, scat numbers and Three Stooges slapstick falls. These numbers are endless and the act almost succeeds in ruining an otherwise brilliant production...
Redford has bizarrely chosen the '20s as the setting for this play, a decision chiefly noticeable in the first three acts by the costumes of the performers. In the fourth act, the time setting of the production returns with a vengeance, as peasants do flapper numbers to Louis Armstrong tapes...