Word: mintz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucky for Rorvik. Cancer Researcher Beatrice Mintz called Image "unquestionably a work of fiction." She characterized the book as "mildly amusing, though not in ways intended by the author," and said that it was full of "scientific boners." Charged Geneticist Clement Markert: "Rorvik is guilty of false and misleading advertising." Others noted that no mammals, let alone humans, had yet been cloned. They voiced concern that tracts like Image, passed off as present fact, might cause public reaction against cloning techniques used in cancer, aging and other important medical research...
...when they get a fair chance, they do well. Nikki Mintz finds her niche in comedy in "Raining in My Heart" after falling unsuccessfully between bitter and sweet with "If Love Were All." Judy Banks has a clear, strong voice, well-suited to musicals, but she and Hayes, despite their talent, show the dreary "Who Said Gay Paree" was replaced with "I Love Paris" in Can-Can. And Patty Woo's phrasing and professionalism help, but they are not powerful enough to overcome the material. Her "Anyone Can Whistle" is a soft tune that does work as it should, though...
...anxious to get off the beaten path, you should be following the Harvard Premiere Society--that's its specialty. The Premiere Society was originally founded as a vehicle for the talented Philip LaZebnik '76, who was having trouble getting his new musical Mad About Mintz produced by Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid. Under the society's auspices, Mintz finally made it onto the Agassiz stage, and the rest is Harvard theater history. Last year the Premiere Society sponsored what turned out to be the hottest show in town: Do It Yourself, a collage of skits and songs written by Harvard students...
Public-address systems are used to announce 15-minute "mini-sales" every couple of hours. The stress is on urgency. Says Gary Mintz, who is running the liquidation for Grant in New York: "A customer doesn't come in with a shopping list. He comes in for the value. An out-of-business sale represents the bargain of a lifetime...
While Doug Hughes, essentially repeating the straight role he played in Mintz, sings with a lovely tenor, the rest of the cast demonstrate convincingly that they were chosen on the basis of their comic rather than musical talents. Exhibiting a superb sense of timing, Debra Smigel delivers the best performance of the night as Dr. Olson, the pompous social scientist who is helpless without her Ph.D. Jackie Osherow has some fine moments as the fruit-crazed Goneril, and Sarah McCluskey as Adeline pronounces some less than stellar lines with a cute Marilyn Monroe pout...