Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This hand," bespectacled George Day, 53, is saying Saturday morning as he gestures at a half-closed fist, the right one, attached to a misshapen forearm. Day, now a wealthy Florida lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like...
...Major Barbara--Shaw for the Masses. At the Loeb Drama Center, Brattle St., Friday at 8, Saturday...
...shot. Director Arthur Savage gamely tries to breathe some life into this lifeless play, and the actors all come up with truly creditable performances. David Ellsworth dominates as John Cleary, adeptly playing the part of the irrational, raging, frustrated father. At times Ellsworth seems a bit stiff--his two major rages are almost identical in gesture and intonation--but on the whole, and particularly in the final scene, he is the focal point of the production. Belle McDonald quietly excels as the dominated, insistent and wholly unfair wife, a woman who gains no satisfaction from her marriage and constantly looks...
Play: Harvard Summer Repertory Theater--Major Barbara, by George Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. $5, $6, $7.50. Through July 8; Tues...
That's just the start. Twice a week, we bring you incisive reviews of the arts scene in and around Boston, and opinions on major movies and books that appear over the summer months. And every Friday The Crimson's Third Page gives you a rundown of what's happening outside Harvard--movies, plays, dancing, concerts. Just what you need to plan your weekend...