Word: mayer
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While a Harvard undergraduate, Timothy Mayer '66 overhauled Aeschylus' Eumenides, the last part of the Greek playwright's Oresteia trilogy. The result is a sophisticated, irreverent interpretation called Red Eye. Last weekend at the Agassiz Theater, Orestes' flight from the furies and trial in the Athenian court underwent futher revision in director Patrick Tan's ambitions adaptation of Mayer's play...
Ultimately, it seems, the demands of Tan's interpretation are too great for this production. The fragile intersection of the olympic and the ordinary are too often upset by a general lack of momentum, technical shortcomings and over-acting that reduce some of Mayer's most powerful lines to farce...
...approach. Sears and J.C. Penney have placed catalog outlet stores at the new discount malls. Upscale Ann Taylor has two clearance centers at megamalls. Even Saks opened its first outlet in Philadelphia's Franklin Mills. "Like it or not, it's the wave of the future," says Sid Mayer, Saks' senior vice president of merchandise liquidation. "Traditional department stores were in trouble anyhow. Discount malls are a necessary evil...
Each came to a tragic end. John spent his last years caricaturing himself in films. Lionel was ignored by the studio he helped build. In 1954, when he was terminally ill, his unused dressing room came to the attention of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. "There was a shortage: James Cagney needed quarters for his current film. Consent to dismantle Lionel's suite, store his belongings and reassign the bungalow was granted in a memo of November 15." Lionel died that evening. Peters notes dryly, "MGM couldn't even wait for its most durable star to stop breathing." In old age Ethel...
...Hart '91 Brian R. Hecht '92 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Feature Editor: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Sports Editors: Peter Rosenthal '93 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Zachary M. Schrag '92 Business Editor: Raymond B.B. Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Katherine C. Mayer...