Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the most promising actors in this play are cut short when their characters are murdered, but, gratifyingly, the show is stolen by two who manage to evade death until near the end. As Sir Lawrence Wargrave, a notorious "hanging judge," Woody Hill paces through his scenes like a hawk, interrogating other characters in courtroom style and calmly remarking, "We've been invited here by a madman, probably homicidal." Miss Vera Claythorne (Reid Cottingham) uses physical objects perfectly, obsessively adjusting the rings on her finger and hovering in the background with a cigarette like an angel of death...
...three students in the room, located in the new part of Quincy near the corner of DeWolfe and Mt. Auburn Sts., said they did not see who threw the object. They also said that neither they nor the police, who arrived less than five minutes later, could find the projectile...
Quincy cited statistics that place Harvard near the bottom of a list of eight comparable universities in terms of minority and women faculty hiring...
...lifetime, maybe only worthy of one smudgy play, but they were still nice surprise samplers in odd corners of culture. The soul--or the lack thereof--of the compact disc is such a technological boy wonder that it will never be simplified into fun forms that you find near those ever-annoying subscription cards in magazine centerfolds...
...city the size of Cambridge, this situation is unacceptable. Violent crimes occur here every day--for example, one shuttle bus driver recently was accosted after parking his bus near the Business School. Unless the University does something to address a growing security problem, it is only a matter of time before the next student is mugged, assaulted or raped...