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Friends expected Navy Lieut. (J.G.) Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis...
...Smith then sent a 13-page letter begging her to reconsider. They were seen arguing on Tuesday evening, just hours before the killing. She left that quarrel in tears. At about 1:45 a.m., Smith reached O'Neill's sixth-floor apartment at the bachelor officers' quarters. He found Grizzard visiting O'Neill, exchanged angry words and then opened fire. Within seconds, all three were dead...
...SHOOT LOW, BOYS -- THEY'RE RIDIN' SHETLAND PONIES, Grizzard...
...Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself, Grizzard...
...Grizzard's Ralph was an eternal Lit le Boy Blue but capable of last-ditch courage; Luckinbill is simply an animated puppet dangling jerkily from unseen strings. Baxley's Emily was managerial yet vulnerable; Feldon is as crisp as a fresh ice cube and just about as cool whenever she melts. Under Weidner, pauses became gravamens of a lost chord of happiness. Theodore Mann directs Past Tense as if he were presiding over a domestic roller derby. It is a valuable reminder that the play you see is not always the one the au thor actually wrote...