Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackie Corrigan, a freshman playing in the third position, said the faulty lighting made the ball look "like a strobe light...
Lenka Peterson (Henny) succeeds in seeming 83 years old, which, under the garish light of a hospital room, is a feat. She's a forceful character, who makes her son's childlike infatuation with her fairly credible. Henny falters where the script does. She's got too many lines and knows it, so she gropes for a way to enrich her persona. The result is a character who's too self-consciously spunky, reminiscent, at times, of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies. And when it comes time for that last dramatic soliloquoy, her part collapses altogether...
...button-tailed, twitchy-nosed, big-eared, bright-eyed and always on the hop. Onstage, words do lead to talk, too much talk, perhaps, in this play, but much of it is exhilaratingly Shavian. In the new guise of a didact, Stoppard comes out for a free press ("Information is light...
What on earth does this sentence in a news story mean? Has Nevin been guilty of some other funny business that has not yet come to light, or has he simply not done well enough, or what? A flabby and unspecific accusation is anonymously made. There it lies on a page of the New York Times-unfair, unchallengeable, unproven...
...aggressive Bruin defense silenced most of the Crimson firepower, but three novice goalscorers triggered the red light to lead the Harvard attack. Bobby Fowkes, Greg Britz and Graham Carter, all scoring their first goals of the campaign, supplemented Mark Fusco's first-period tally to provide the icemen with a 4-2 lead 12 minutes into the final period...