Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side, James Russell snagged first place in the hammer throw. The senior could have won the event with one of his qualifying throws, but stayed long enough to heave the 16-lb. hammer 197-ft., 11-in. to out-distance the competition by almost 16 feet...
...even the sudden introduction of Maggie from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as instant parodies of Mamet and Beckett tossed in like ingredients in Ubu's wild bouillabaise, can save it from ennui. Every now and then, though, Durang's original wit shines through the sledge-hammer production, as when Andreassi suddenly transforms into Brick from Cat: "What happened between Skipper and me was good! It was pure! Okay, so we dressed up as lumberjacks and french-kissed for an hour, but it was good...
Junior James Russell placed second in the hammer throw with a throw of 200-ft., 10-in. This was a personal best for Russell, and the throw qualified him for the nationals...
Nothing in Orton's life became him like his leaving it. His lover, Kenneth Halliwell, took a hammer and smashed the snide poetry in Joe's brains to pulp, then swallowed 22 Nembutals and died. If Orton had lived a bit longer, he might have done justice in his work to the themes that informed his 16 years with Halliwell: love vs. jealousy, career vs. home life, husband vs. wife, son vs. mother. As it was, he wrote three full-length plays (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot, What the Butler Saw) that subverted old genres and modern society with a cheekily...
...junior James Russell--an All-America during the indoor season--has a shot to break the Harvard hammer throw record. That record was set by Tom Lenz at 213.4 meters...