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Tennis players are manufactured on a centralized industrial model, with a five-year plan, a budget set in Prague and a chain of bureaucratic command that runs from rural sports committees up through the central committee of the Union of Physical Culture. According to the locker-room wisecrack, the only difference between player development and the national economy is that the tennis program works...
...scam, remarks in an aside, people become willing to do something they consider wrong if they see enough others doing it. Kelly shrewdly narrows his focus to just the wrongdoers, not the colleagues who never joined -- or, in at least some cases, were not asked. Most of the locker-room dialogue is persuasive, blending easy badinage with underlying detachment. By far the most effective scenes are the verbal dances in which the players stumble into conspiracy, each looking to the other for guidance...
...play is good fun, and should be seen, especially if you like baseball. Even if you are not especially keen on the game, but do not mind locker room talk, it is very possible you will enjoy it. The proximity of the theater to Harvard Square makes it especially inviting for Summer School students, although the tickets are quite pricey ($14 Tuesday--Thursday evenings and Saturday, Sunday matinees; $17 Friday, Saturday evenings). Like the Sox pitching staff, this play is colorful and unpredictable, definitely worth a trip to the bullpen...
...Brock6 system, Pythagorean projections and the devil's theory of park effects. The reason is that they find it hard to believe a bearded pseudo-academic, squirreled away with pad and pencil in Kansas, could possibly know more about the game than veteran beat writers, who & regularly trade locker-room gibes with Reggie and Pete and get to provide ringside coverage of Billy Martin's bouts with marshmallow salesmen...
With the three films they made together, Molly Ringwald and Writer- Producer-Director John Hughes showed teenagers that rose-tinted light. Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985) and this spring's hit Pretty in Pink succeed because they are about the kids who go see them--not the locker-room sadists, lubricious cheerleaders and barons of barf who populate the Porky's films, but teendom's silent majority of average, middle-class suburban kids...