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...surely as those of a good caricaturist. But Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as if he had been brooding on deeper things all along-like, say, man's fate. It is as if the playwright as jester suddenly dropped his mask and wished to be acknowledged as a thinker. These two one-acters at Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater display both Durang's virtues and his defects...
After gaining 40 yards, the Bruins failed to claw their way to a touchdown. Following a 20 yard punt, Harvard and a face mask call against the Crimson, Brown moved to the 11 yard line. Halfback Kenny Jones, finding a hole ran eight yards for a touchdown and brought the score...
Brown punted, but running back Greg Dunn fumbled the ball in a controversial play, giving the ball back to the Bruins. After a face mask call against Harvard, Brown moved to the 11-yard line with two minutes left in the game. Heffernan caught a pass and ran in for the touchdown. Failing to make the conversion, Brown nevertheless took the lead...
...ready embrace and winning smile could also mask his inner thoughts. Says William Quandt, a former Middle East expert on the National Security Council: "Sadat was a hard man to read. He didn't always communicate what was on his mind so he would catch you by surprise." He could be intentionally devious on occasion. At the first Camp David session, Sadat read a list of hard-line demands that almost broke up the talks on the spot. His strategy, Quandt later concluded, "was to manufacture a crisis that would force the U.S. to step in and start offering proposals...
...words and some carefully worked literary effects to evoke Sarah's strangeness: "It was an unforgettable face, and a tragic face. Its sorrow welled out of it as purely, naturally and unstoppably as water out of a woodland spring. There was no artifice there, no hypocrisy, no hysteria, no mask; and above all, no sign of madness. The madness was in the empty sea, the empty horizon, the lack of reason for such sorrow...