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...once grand family on the verge of eviction from its estate. Everybody perceives the sound, which Chekhov likens in the stage directions to a snapping string, but each has his own sense of what it meant. To one, it suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints at the theme of an encroaching Industrial Revolution to which this doomed family cannot adapt. In the splendidly insightful version now at the Brooklyn Academy...
Lacroix is learning the hazards of fame. He is now recognized all over Paris, and he is deeply embarrassed when asked for an autograph or cornered in a restaurant. Once an avid night owl, he now sends Rosensthiel to various events. "He stays in more, and I go out more," she says. "And people have got used to inviting him and getting me instead." She is often referred to as his muse, but she denies it. "I'm not a muse, but I amuse him," she says. "I'm not at his feet adoringly, but he can count...
...Rice fired back with some power of its own, namely a hounding Owl defense and the spinning moves of senior center Edith Adams, who led the visitors' inside game with 18 points, 16 rebounds, three blocks and four assists...
...game came down to the clutch play of Keffer, who drove to the hoop on Owl freshman Charity Shira and drew a foul, earning her two shots at the charity stripe...
...Charles "Chuck" Whitmore IV, Eliot House For fourth-generation Haravardian M. Chuck, being heir to an ancestral fortune isn't as easy as it sounds. Explains the Owl Club president, "Apart from all the genetic deficiencies caused by inbreeding, the Whitmore family has suffered terribly from the liberation of the serfs...