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Rodgers, of course, wouldn't mind beating the pack on Monday. "If I'm not in the top three to five, it'll be a letdown. I'd be disappointed," he admitted...
PERSONAL AND SEXUAL politics, rather than corporate ones, tease and distort the audience's expectations in the evening's second play, Bonnie Salomon's Who's the Fool Now? which takes its inspiration from the true story of a writer who commits suicide. Anyone expecting a letdown from Cradle's shuttering close should be not only pleasantly surprised but downright rolled up by a play that is satisfyingly complex and refreshingly free of the problems to which first plays by undergraduates are liable to fall prey...
Meanwhile, Ivan Lendl, the game's hottest player, decided to pass up Wimbledon to avoid a likely letdown after all the recent euphoria surrounding his six-tournament win streak. He has emerged victorious in five of his last six encounters with John McEnroe, the world's top-ranked player. But at Wimbledon, his payoffs are traditionally paltry. In a total of three outings, he has only reached the quarterfinal round once. Realizing that slippery, unpredictable grass courts are less hospitable to his power-paced grooved baseline game, the 21-year-old Lendl reasons. Why take two weeks off prior...
...will doubtless be disappointed when he looks under his tree Christmas morning. The present he's looking for, he says, is "what all admissions committees want--the gift of hindsight." And Alan E. Heimert, Cabot Professor of American Literature and master of Eliot House, is also in for a letdown. Heimert's yuletide desire: anonymity...
Contrary to the pre-meet plans of coach Don Galluzzi the Columbia squad did not shave down for the meet. "It was a letdown for us." Harvard assistant coach Ken Oberg said yesterday. "But I guess they felt they didn't have the big guns to go after...