Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innocence in Leduc's life, and there is none in her art. The Taxi is a story of children, but it is no Petit Prince. Leduc's children are beyond their years in sophistication, their age of innocence informed with a deep worldly wisdom. The brother and sister, fourteen and sixteen years old, who are the speakers in Leduc's dialogue, have reached a level of sensuality unusual in most adults, and act out their desires in a well-planned ritual of incest for which they have spent months in practice...
Director Edwin Sherin has elicited a remarkable set of performances from his fourteen main characters, with only two exceptions. Lee Richardson's Undershaft is best of all-forceful and unshakeable from start to finish. (And he really plays the prescribed tune from Doninetti's Lucia on a trombone). Lady Brit is his separated wife, a woman given to bossing and tossing off epigrams--clearly modeled on Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, written a decade earlier. Jan Miner, in a performance that brings to mind Jessica Tandy, is doing in this role far and away...
Brown, along with Cornell, is the squad to beat in the Ivy League this season. Fourteen Bruin lettermen have returned from last year's 11-3 team, which was the best in the school's history...
...will select men for the eight-cared heavyweight boast, for the four-with-coxswain, and two alternates. The fourteen rowers will have about seven weeks to train together in preparation for the late summer Olympics...
Robin Scott Wilson's "Gone Fishin'" projects an incredible mingling of cold war and black power ideologies. No classic science fiction fan could do anything but gape and laugh at a hero who is described as a fourteen-year old German Negro serving the Americans as an anti-Soviet, telepathic...