Word: improvisationism
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In their short-sleeved shirts and wide ties, toting clipboards and pocket calculators, the Bechtel brigade seems the very can-do embodiment of American technological know-how. Its members also occasionally demonstrate a flair for improvisation that would do a World War II Navy Seabee proud. Earlier this year, 250...
Roosevelt was not, most certainly, a saint. Even so admiring an observer as John Gunther, drawing up a catalogue of Roosevelt's many virtues and achievements in Roosevelt in Retrospect, charged him with "dilatoriness, two-sidedness (some critics would say plain dishonesty), pettiness in some personal relationships, a cardinal...
Hoot with Bob Halperin--Idler's Back Room Another Improvisation by M. Fuenmayor--Springfield's, 1369 Cambridge St.
As the protagonist, Iago, Christopher Plummer gives a shrewdly structured yet hearteningly scenery-chewing Performance--careful and nuanced enough to dispel Colerdge's nagging "motivelessmalignity" tag. At the start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage...
Approaches to Improvisation--Lewis Porter; Leverett JCR, 9 p.m.