Word: professor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball man. Once you forget the lines like "when you cut him, he bleeds tobacco juice," you realize that this rare species does exist--the professor in a grammar school game, the practical historian of the pastime...
...grant from the Rita Allen Foundation in New York and a $275,000 from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in North Carolina will support a new toxicology unit headed by Dr. Armen H. Tashjian, professor of Toxicology at the School of Public Health...
...wrinkled, yellow pea in this case is The Kugelmass Episode, based on a short story by Woody Allen and adapted for the stage by Richard Selden. In it, Sidney Kugelmass (Joel Levin), a professor of humanities at the City College of New York with a balding pate and a "chubby cheesecake choked body," tries to add adventure and romance to his life. He enlists help from a magician (Tom Blumenfield) with a contraption that can catapult a person into the novel of his choice and decides to have an affair with Emma Bovary (Troy Segal...
Levin is unconvincing as a middle-aged professor, although he does improve when he berates the magician. Often rushing through lines in a whining tone, Levin fails to employ vocal variety and facial expressions to add humor to his part. Neither does he work to age his voice and stage actions...
...Wiprud as the zany Professor Marshall Cupris Guigny, on the other hand, performs well, aided by the funniest line in the show. Wiprud in his brief appearance employs a full range of comic devices to lend humor to this part...