Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Garden, off the Arlington stop of the MBTA Green Line, is the Ritz-Carlton of Boston Parks. Carefully cut sidewalks, ornate bridges, ornamental trees, treehouses, flowers, and graffiti-less statues dot the park. (At least all this was true before "A Small Circle of Friends", of plastic snow fame, moved in to film last week...
Another change in the line-up featured Greg Kirsch, who since the winter season has worked his way from the number 13 spot to the fourth singles slot where he turned on the tennis and turned off Dartmouth's Mark Jeffrey...
Romeo sounds this note in his very first speech with the cry of "O any thing, of nothing first create." Characteristically, Walter C. Hughes's Romeo swallows the line...
...year-old Juliet, but like Hughes she lacks essential vocal control. She tries to press her small voice to impassioned heights, and the result is an embarrassing sound somewhere between a whine and a scream. And at heated moments, she has a habit of trying to spout an entire line of pentameter verse in one breath...
Jonathan Prince's Mercutio is equally smooth but much less ingenuous. Prince pays attention to what he says, but should learn that the moment of stillness is as valuable to an actor as the gesture. He accompanies each line in the "Queen Mab" speech with a fidget, wave, or wriggle of the hips and ends up irritating instead of captivating. Alexander C. Pearson gives Friar Laurence a good, hammy performance, suitably gawkish, well-intentioned and incompetent, but by the end he gets sucked into the general failure...