Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension throughout the play. Elizabeth Bronfen is suitably lactic and senile as Queen Victoria, while Lisa Claudy and Danielle Alexandra both flow through their mimes with professional ease and individuality. The actors are obviously competent and make do as best they can, but responsibility for their scattered incoherence must lie with the director...
Some episodes of Nixon's public career might support those descriptions, but Abrahamsen makes his mountains of childhood molehills. When Nixon was a boy, he would lie awake at night, listening to whistles of passing trains and fantasizing about faraway places. This wanderlust, which continued in adulthood, was an outlet for "frustrated sexual desires." Young Nixon was also adept at mashing potatoes without leaving any lumps; Abrahamsen writes that he "chose to release his energy" in this "unusual" way to win his mother's love. The "extent and intensity" of the mashing suggests "aggression" against the potatoes...
Most people involved with the GSAS reacted favorably to the Keenan appointment. "We looked for somebody who was not necessarily an ultra-liberal, but for an efficient administrator. We believe that a lot of the problems with minority admissions at the GSAS lie in efficiency problems," Michael Harris, a spokesman for the GSAS Task Force on minority recruitment and admissions, said...
...makeshift golf course was built on the island of Las Palmas, the largest of the volcanic atolls of the Canary Islands that lie in the mid-Atlantic, 1000 miles off the coast of North Africa. It was the first course ever on Spanish territory. Another 12 years went by before golf gained a foothold on the Iberian mainland when the Madrid Polo Golf Club was established where the Castellana race track had once been...
...beginning and the end of the show, develop insect-like personalities and the dark underside of Puck is revealed. The elaborate production has been sealed together by the people who brought The Beggar's Opera to Adams House last year. In the stage's flood of dark blue light, lie back and be wooed. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $2.50 and can be purchased at Holyoke Center or at the door...