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...became a challenge I just couldn't resist," Paulovich said yesterday after his daily two-hour practice. "I wanted to prove that the coach was wrong more than anything else in the world." Paulovich decided to start an excruciating grind of daily double-practices, pushing his muscular 150-pound frame through the knee-buckling stadiums and vomitacious drills...
...craft's appeal to the tyro lies partly in the fact that it need not be expensive. Basic equipment, in addition to the glass, can be bought for less than $50. It includes: a glass cutter, a breaker (for splitting the glass), a grozier (to grind off errors), copper foil or lead (to hold the pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead...
...when the delivery is sharp, you feel yourself beginning to laugh even before the line is finished. That never happens in the Leverett production. Although director Tim Garry has paced the show far too fast--with the exception of the physical business called for in the script, where things grind to a dead halt--he has not given the actors any clues about proper emphasis. The wistful and the exuberant sound alike, and the unvarying rhythm grows monotonous...
Prefer something more meaty? Two very different productions address themselves more seriously to the mundane grind. The Loeb Ex presents Chekhov's brooding and beautiful The Seagull tonight, tomorrow and Saturday; tickets are free to this 19th-century naturalist masterpiece. The Cambridge Ensemble hosts an original multi-media show entitled Worksong from March 9 through March 18 at the Ensemble theatre, 1151 Mass. Ave. The show depicts a cross-section of workers with humor and song and sensitivity; for more info. call...
...some of the earth's crust to roll up like a rug pushed against a wall. In this particular case, the snag is apparently occurring along a dogleg bend in the San Andreas Fault in the vicinity of the Palmdale Bulge. There the two huge plates, which normally grind past each other in opposite directions, appear to be locked together, causing a buildup of tremendous strain that eventually must be released in one or more quakes...