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...playful costumes by Deborah-Lee Moisan highlight the anachronisms of The Frogs, stressing the play's timelessness. Traditional tunics mingle with neon leotards. Shaw appears in a sombre suit, while Will Shakespeare's costume is strictly Elizabethean. Herakles, a vain jock, wears his fabled lion skin with Nikes. These mixed colors and periods set against the bare Fogg courtyard, decorated only with several large moveable blocks, stand out vibrantly, the effect innovative and welcome in an era of elaborate staging. The multilevel courtyard constitutes a director's dream: both the second floor pillared balcony and the third story windows come...
...your story on the Manufacturers Hanover Corp.'s annual report [March 29], you twice identify me as a novelist-without, however, citing the titles of any of my novels. That would have been difficult. Of the 20-odd books I have had published (most recently Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney), every one has been a work of nonfiction...
...REST of the film follows Chris's emotional ups and downs as she prepares for the Olympic meet, and it is here that Towne cups out in the name of truth, justice and the American way. Enter former Olympic medalist Kenny Moore, as a handsome jock who sets out to rescue Chris from her very own fate-worse-than-death. He's kind, generous, considerate--probably one of the nicest, handsome jocks she's ever met--and the two soon find themselves in love...
Vujovic was upset by the "jock image" attached to all athletes. "A lot of soccer players at Harvard wanted to give up soccer this year," he said at the time. "People tend to overlook that you have other talents and interests. [Foreign players] are proud--something like this insults them. In Europe sport is considered an art. Here people just look at you as a soccer player...
Picking up jock straps, rebounding basketballs during pre-game warm-ups, pouring Gatorade into Dixie Cups and folding socks were only a few of the integral contributions to the team...