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After Maine put one run up on a solo shot to right center in the top of the eleventh, Harvard loaded the bases in the bottom half with no outs on two walks and a hit batsman. But freshman pinch-hitter Michael Madden grounded into a 4-3 double play, scoring one run to tie the score, but ending the Harvard threat...
...become completely neurotic since her husband left her before the play begins: she feels empathy towards people in most situations, has headaches, and, when scared, "freezes to" things (most notably in the play, a gun, which she grasps throughout much of the action). Ata meets Bo (Jennifer Madden), the other main character of the play, when Bo attempts to rob her apartment...
...best acting is done by Hambly, who tries to liven up her flat character. Madden is appropriately unapproachable and successfully conveys a ring of untruth in her voice. Unfortunately, the performances are weakened by the ludicrous subject matter. The minor characters have even less dimension. Since even the relationship between Bo and Ata isn't well-developed, the smaller parts are still less memorable...
...What's the pattern here, Cap?" asks Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple, the department's thickset, dandyish crime guru. Using a laser pen, Maple scrawls on an overhead map, tracing robbery patterns the way John Madden diagrams football plays. Maple circles an archipelago of red dots: muggings along Ninth Avenue. "What are you doing to take these guys...
Captain Brad Konik fed freshman Craig MacDonald down to the right of the goal, MacDonald then crossed the puck to Bent, who was waiting to Konte's left, and Bent blasted it home. Even John Madden couldn't diagram it any better than that one--a sort of a tic-tac-goal...