Word: joes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INTO Balm's society of antisocials, whose only law is "me first" stumble two comparatively well-off and friendly misfits. Joe (C.J. Nolan) is a middle-class hustler looking for a piece of the drug-pushing action, and Darlene (Jacqueline Grad) is a woman unaccustomed to the "big city" (she's from Chicago) who is looking for an office job. It is no surprise that they are attracted to each other, and their relationship, though there is not enough compassion or love in it to call it a romance, offers the only hope in the play that anyone will overcome...
...that hope diminishes as it becomes painfully obvious that Darlene and Joe are simply too weak to cope with life on the street. Darlene's weakness is an overpowering naivete, which Grad conveys with nervous energy, a squeaky voice, a too-loud laugh and a skyward gaze. She is usually effective, though her histrionics sometimes reach the point of parody and make her look like Ellen Greene's skid-row princess in Little Shop of Horrors...
Scramble, Scramble: Harvard was plagued last season by the lack of an experienced quarterback. After two years of the competent--sometimes brilliant--Brian White, Crimson Coach Joe Restic had to sift through the depth chart to come up with a starting QB. David Landau, his opening game starter in '86, finished the season with 10 interceptions and zero touchdown passes...
...Columbia is a much improved team this year," Harvard Coach Joe Restic said after his team summarily dismissed the Lions, 35-0, here on Saturday. "They are going to beat some teams this year, no question...
CREDIT: TIME Chart by Joe Lertola...