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...grooving to a song called, "I walk the lonely streets at night/ A-looking' for your door." Murph and Joey discover the Indian mutely waiting for a bus. The kids wonder if he is an Indian or Turk and go through a series of delightful digs at each other, horseplay, and anecdotes such as the time Murph pulled down his trousers, sat on a Xerox machine, and sent the copies to his friends as Christmas cards. However, neither Heit nor Lazaro really got wound up in the roles. Horovitz is striving for authenticity if nothing else, but created a half...

Author: By Lawrence Bergreen, | Title: The Theatregoer Rats and The Indian Wants the Bronx | 3/24/1970 | See Source »

However, none of these reasons explain a day in the red for July 18. They lone winners were SUN TICCO ($8.60) and WOLF WILLOW ($5.20). The night before the Scientist had enlisted the handicapping aid of a high rolling horseplay from New York, the Wellesley Kid. It was a very hot and humid night. In a fifth floor apartment two blopcks over some well-shaped young ladies fought the heat by not wearing andy clothes. The Wellesley Kid enjoyed the Cambridge view as he never had. He spent the night focusing his binoculars, occasionally puncturing the evening with such remarks...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Ah Woe! Picking Horses Is Not An Easy Task | 7/22/1969 | See Source »

...barely adequate cast seems to relish all opportunities for bombast and comic clowning. The chorus resembles the witches from Macbeth multiplied. The murders might as well have been performed by Richard III. Elizabethan Greeks are a novelty all right, but they reduce the play to historical pageantry, horseplay and melodrama when it ought to be blindingly focused on man's ineluctable rendezvous with fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Elizabethan Greeks | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson booters have been plagued with injuries in the past week. Starting fullback Andy Abbott bruised a bone in his hip when he fell during pre-practice horseplay and will not make the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Booters Go For 6th Victory | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...Despite its popularity, the derogatory comments heaped on the ballet at its first performance in St. Petersburg in 1892 are still true. The music though lyrical, is Tchaikovsky at his most saccharine; the choreoraphy of Pea, the Russian master, and his assistant Ivanov, allows a lot of room for horseplay and very little for real ballet...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: The Nutcracker Suite | 12/20/1967 | See Source »

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