Word: quartetting
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...crudely brilliant Starved (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), the drug of choice is food. The show has a Seinfeldian quartet--sarcastic New Yorkers, three guys and a gal--but their meeting place is a toughlove eating-disorder group. (Ironically, though, they also hang at a diner...
...Example: Henrik, the most tortured of this quartet, is allowed to reveal his charm before his pain, then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that...
...production finds the same raw ambivalence in the quartet of lovers. The rivals Demetrius and Lysander come into the forest armed with flick knives. Later, under the influence of a love potion, they are ready to fight and die for love of Helena, whom hours before they both had ignored, and are almost willing to kill Hermia, to whom they both had sworn undying devotion. Even after a restorative drug has returned them to orderly pairings, all four eye one another uneasily: they have lost the sweet certainty of first love. At the curtain call, the pairs come out again...
...achiever from the start. His father was an M.I.T.-trained engineer and his mother a social worker, and young Burr remembers going to the neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope his first time on skis. Burr embraced a romantic notion that he could make any team if he tried hard enough. Recalls his mother, Lorna Banks...
...season, Ivy rival Princeton, longtime nemesis Trinity, and defending league and national champion Yale were all ranked above the Crimson women’s squash team. Harvard stood at No. 4, a mixed bag of seasoned veterans, fresh faces, and a lot of questions. How would the quartet of talented newcomers adjust to college squash? Who would replace the No. 1 punch of former captain Louisa Hall ’04, one of the top female squash players in the world? Could the Crimson hold its own against the Tigers, Bantams, and Bulldogs and avenge its first Ivy losses...