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...first game was staring through the passenger windows of cars stopped, at the traffic light. The girl on the passenger side would soon turn away from the driver and glance out, and there was Spider, just looking at her. She'd jump, and then reach for the lock. No one got out of the car to give Spider any crap. Spider had friends anyway...
...installation of emergency locks on glass doors in University Hall I bore with good humor, even though the cost of the glass the anticipated invader would break in order to reach his hand through to unlock the lock was smaller than the cost of the lock itself. But bars on the window are another matter. In our office, they are screwed into years-old wood which would never withstand a good, strong kick, negating their effectiveness at the outset. The assumption that protestors would sneak in a basement window rather than march openly through normal entryways I also find offensive...
...sprawling work with plot tines and characters in a dozen directions at once. It is set against the backdrop of a fair, which was the closest thing the E?zabethans had to a trip. Senelick's got to make all the pieces fit together without letting the gears lock altogether and have the whole delicate Rube Goldberg design collapse. As a comedy, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR is something of a wild creature. As the director. Senelick must find a way to cage it without killing...
...family, Anita "wanted to be a teacher, a writer perhaps, with a little play-acting thrown in," but she had always considered the possibility of becoming a nun. As a student at Immaculate Heart College, she was impressed by the sisters ("Even then they weren't all in lock step"). After graduating, she entered the convent and began teaching English in its high school. The order sent her to Stanford for a doctorate in English literature (1948), and she became college president in 1957. Six years later she was elected Mother General. Says Corita Kent...
...triumph, Harvard's fifth straight since the Beanpot tournament, gave the Crimson a firm lock on third place in the Ivy standings. In view of Boston College's surprise loss at St. Lawrence Saturday night, it also revived Harvard's chances for a fourth-place seeding for the playoffs-most likely pairing the Crimson with B.C., instead of Clarkson...