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Word: fors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellie Cunningham, at fifth position, used corner shots "for the first time in my life" to take her match, 15-9, 15-11, 15-2.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Shut Out Wesleyan, 7-0 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The 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...

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

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...

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...

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

After this scene begins the perilous descent into the cheap gimmickery of the fourth act. David Levi's Camillo is a barometer for the travesties of this act. Levi starts as a glorious Camillo, wonderfully obsequious to his lord but courageous enough to flee with the King of Bohemia. Levi...

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

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