Word: friar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moments after a Crimson penalty expired, P.C. forward Mike Bolstad tipped in a meandering flip shot from the point to put the Friars out front 5:13 after the opening face-off. When Miele converted a set-up from behind the Crimson net, it looked like the rout was on, but Dave Burke sent Tom Murray in alone to cut the margin in half and sober up the euphoric Friar fans and cheerleaders...
Providence College ran away with the meet as expected, placing all five of its scorers in the top 13 and recording just 36 points. Friar Ray Treacy spoiled Northeastern all-American Bruce Bick-ford's last race at Franklin Park with a 29:28 victory, 27 seconds ahead of Bick-ford. Boston University, which finished second with 83 points, also qualified for the national meet...
What, then, are these atrocities performed upon Shakespeare's defenseless classic? First, Sellars has combined the roles of Leonato and Friar Francis into a new character named "Monsieur Love" (Chris Clemenson)--not a mortal sin, since the new character lives up to his fabricated name by playing matchmaker, always presiding over some new combination of lovers, and since Clemenson plays the part with a consistently benign, endearing manner...
...what he says, but should learn that the moment of stillness is as valuable to an actor as the gesture. He accompanies each line in the "Queen Mab" speech with a fidget, wave, or wriggle of the hips and ends up irritating instead of captivating. Alexander C. Pearson gives Friar Laurence a good, hammy performance, suitably gawkish, well-intentioned and incompetent, but by the end he gets sucked into the general failure...
Playing four men to a side after matching penalties on Purdy and Friar, Jim Korm, freshman Mike Watson slipped a George Hughes rebound over the sprawled Milner. That made...