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...gods torment Hali by causing him to witness his mother's death. Even Hali's love, Rooh (Maura Moynihan), dies. Halie tires of these divine pranks and challenges the gods. He renounces their influence. He discards his belief in them, so they no longer can control his mind. Hali takes his own life in the end, proving to the gods that he is master of his own destiny. But he also proves that he cannot live without the dreams and visions, good or bad, that the gods provide. Bonsey's death is quick and shocking, far removed from drawn...
Without the dancers (June Kinoshita, Mira Nair, Maura Moynihan, Laurie Merrick) the plot would not hold together well, nor would it be as exciting. The dancers' movements are poetic, blending with the words and the music so thoroughly that they are inseparable. The different elements explain and express each other...
Injury also struck the Harvard teams. Guard Ellen Hart spent the second half of the Brown game with ice on a strained ankle. After nursing it that night, she returned to action the next day, but could not play her best. Swimmer Maura Costin left the pool after her heat of the 100-yd. butterfly shaking from the pain of a muscle spasm in her injury-riddled back. She also competed after the injury, with the help of massages from assistant coach Paula Newman, but Costin, like Hart, could not perform...
Going into the last four events of the meet, the crucial section of last night's contest, UMass held a narrow 49-48 lead over the Crimson swimmers. In the first of those four events, the 500-yd. freestyle, versatile Maura Costin cruised to an easy victory, but the real story in that race was Harvard's Sharon Beckman...
...those second-place swims of Danoff and Beckman kept Harvard within four points, 64-60, with only the seven-point, winner-take-all relay ahead. And as expected, the strong relay team of Leslie Landefeld, Mary Ellen Mangano, Jane Fayer, and Maura Costin brought home the win with a time of 1:46.6, a new team record, breaking the old mark...