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...Henry's achievements. Edward Atienza would do well to rid his King Charles of lapses into the Maurice Evans tremolo; but it is effective, when he calls the roll of French nobles from the gallery, to have them line up in the shadows below clad in full armor and helmet, with their backs to the audience...
Inside the cockpit, the 50-year-old commander, with glasses specially fitted into his helmet to correct the farsightedness of middle age, took over the controls for the final critical maneuvers. Expertly, the veteran pilot guided his craft through a long, easy turn. When he completed the maneuver, the ship was lined up perfectly with a runway marked in the ancient, arid bed of Rogers Dry Lake six miles away. "Right on the money, right on the money!" encouraged Mission Control...
...other voices are uniformly in control of the material, with Larry Indik '81 as Belcore in particular projecting impressive musical confidence: we readily believe, as he smirkingly tells the audience, that he has "never met a girl unresponsive to his helmet." Jeanine Bowman '84 projects equal confidence as the village girl Giannetta, controlling the chorus with a creamy contralto voice...
...There's more to life than football," says Rich Szaro '71, and he should know. Now an export manager for a New York City clothing firm and co-founder of Energetic Propulsions, Ltd., developers of a new, patented, horizontal motion bicycle, Szaro has shed his pads and helmet for good. There was a time not so long ago, however, when football was Szaro's whole life--from schoolboy running back to NFL placekicker with the New Orleans Saints...
...then do you get close to such a man? The objects in the exhibition are merely touchstones: a helmet he might have worn, the color of a shallow sea; a silver rhyton, or drinking horn, in the shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...