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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ramon* [note about names being changed] lies on a bench, smoking, his head on his patch-covered backpack. He squints into the sun, toward his friends...
...that note, maybe you can tell me about how you've seen the Head as a race change over the years. LO: There are very strict rules regarding entries in race categories or categories of events, so it's changed in that way, but I think the heart and soul of the Head of the Charles hasn't changed at all. There's every age racing in this, and it's wonderful to see Ernestine Bayer at age 93, or whatever she is, rowing down the river as she has been for the last 30 years, and then...
...there any particular memorable or poignant moments that you remember from past Heads? LO: Well, on a personal note, something that means something to me is that every year since 1980 I have raced in this race with the 1980 Olympic team, which was the last Olympic team I was on, and was the one boycotted by Jimmy Carter when the U.S. team didn't go to Moscow because of the boycott. And we feel as strongly today as we did then that it was a mistake, that it used amateur athletics in completely the wrong way, and I think...
...when he says, "Nobody wanted to be there...when she was home, with all her pain locked up." Pritchard tells how, years later, he ended up in an emergency room after a gang member conked him on the head. And guess who was his nurse? Gina, who took note of the fact that while she had slimmed down nicely, Pritchard was the size of a weather balloon. "I tried Ultra SlimFast," he says. "I found out it tastes great on Ben & Jerry...
Contact consists of three spoken one-act dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba...