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CONSIDER A Midsummer Night's Dream as a gamut for the stage, a series of isometric exercises for a theater company. In its roughly 2000 lines--far shorter than a Hamlet or a Lear--are scenes of courtly reserve and natural abandon, metaphysical mystery and droll stupidity, gathered up and joined behind the proscenium of Shakespeare's florid verse. Where a play like Troilus and Cressida yokes different forms of theater violently together, Midsummer Night's Dream carefully weaves them in, under, and through each other--thus the shimmering, unsettled brilliance it displays in the hands of a good director...
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...would deny the novelty of the projects--clever creations that run the artistic gamut from humorous to grave, from monumental to miniscule. The works make a wonderful display, and the exhibit "Arts on the Line" now at the Hayden Gallery at MIT captures the lively innovation and ingenuity of the schemes...
Four years. Four different finishes. I'd run the gamut of achievement and emotion in front of a packed Garden house each February. My term was up. It was time to load up the station wagon and tell Mom she was right...
...underway tonight with Northeastern shooting for the moon (B.U.) at 6 p.m., followed by this season's number one college hockey phenomenon, B.C., against a youthful but determined Harvard squad in the showcase contest at nine. The performances of the four traditional rivals so far this season run the gamut from the East's best (B.C.) to worst (Northeastern), but you can throw those out now. Grabbing the beans doesn't involve standings or records...