Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film a couple of years ago," he says, "and there was a bit in which I was lying upside down, unconscious in a sailboat. The shot came up later on when I was watching the rushes and I thought. 'God! That's Dustin Hoffman!' " Conti also finds himself in odd positions in Whose Life Is It Any way?, but not for a second does the audience doubt whom it is seeing. The play belongs to Conti, and if Dustin Hoffman is not careful, he may some day be identified as the American Tom Conti...
Candide is an enormous and exhausting show. The score, which contains a couple dozen numbers, frequently demands operatic voices; the chorus of twenty-odd people change costumes roughly five times apiece to portray seventy-eight characters. The most demanding role is that of the narrator-ringmaster, who appears in five different guises, including Voltaire himself. Some of actor William Falk's lines had to be recorded to allow him time to race around the stage and transform himself into another character. Falk seems to be able to handle the various singing styles and characterizations, but the costume changes at times...
...begin to absorb them. Viet Nam returnees often came home by jet, singly or in small groups. What is more, they came home to a society that was not anxious to hear about their traumas. Says Veteran Bill De Bruler: "After exchanging experiences, you feel cleansed in an odd way and you forget for a while that what you did was all for naught...
...DEPARTMENT'S ten-year history has been rocky. Despite recommendations by two visiting committees that the department receive at least four additional tenured professors, only one-and-a-half faculty members hold tenure in the department. Afro-American Studies is the odd man out, the only department funded solely by Dean Rosovsky's office, with no share in monies gained from donations to the University...
...begins with a Saturday afternoon. Baseball season may have already lumbered over the horizon, but even the Red Sox can't enthrall every kid in town. Some of those children will always prefer to spend their time catching the odd fish rather than the errant fast ball...