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...company's acting fails to compensate for its singing. Delivering his lines like an overgrown marionette, Bue alternates between timidity and sarcasm. Occasionally he introduces a British accent for variety. Harper's Todd is an improvement, although his lumberjack appearance detracts from the credibility of his role as a Don Juan. Many of his facial gestures grate after the hundredth repetition but he still performs convincingly as the hard-drinking stud. Genovese's constant head-tossing disturbs her acting, as does her whining intonation. Yet Roffner rescues much of the dialogue with her intuitive feel for timing, breaking easily through...
...these eight overgrown marionettes caught here immobilized, and looking at you like you just threatened to blow up City Hall? Because you are (however inadvertently) threatening to blow up their explosively clever new show, at this very moment. For as you peruse these very lines, they are forced to stand by in suspended animation, waiting for your cue to move. So don't be shy; start yelling out at them your shoesize, your pet peeve, your oatmeal brand. The Next Move, Boston's latest entry in the improvisational theater, can't go on without...
...only New York publication you haven't tried to buy? P.S. I have feelings too." This week Murdoch will add two pages of features and plans eventually to strengthen coverage of fashion, business, television and sports?especially horse racing. He intends to weed out the paper's overgrown garden of columnists, perhaps adding another conservative. "We're aiming for a fairly sophisticated afternoon paper," he says. "It's very middle class now, and we don't intend to change that...
...coals-to-Newcastle operation: cutting down jungle in order to plant new trees. The native forest contains far too many species of trees?more than 300 different kinds on any given acre?for profitable lumbering. At a cost of $250,000 each, Ludwig imported giant Caterpillar "jungle crushers," overgrown bulldozers designed to pull down the natural jungle growth. But these machines proved useless because they damaged the unexpectedly delicate Amazon topsoil. Today one of the jungle crushers stands abandoned and rusting on the outskirts of Monte Dourado. The job is now being done by work gangs using machetes and chain...
...within 60 Boylston street itself, the interaction between administrators and administered is missing the anonymity of a real bureaucracy. Many of the people who work there are former athletes themselves--just "a bunch of overgrown football players," as Omar Fleischaker '78, a manager of the football team, says. "You always sit down and talk about sports for ten minutes or so before you even think about getting down to business...