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...Halley, Jr. is superb as Jim, the runaway slave trying to raft his way into a free state. Jim's character is the only one that is developed beyond the two-dimensionality of the others. Resisting the temptation to condescend to his role or to the audience, Halley portrays a multi-faceted, complex character who is childlike and wise at once, evoking pathos without fishing for it. Were Huck as carefully developed and convincingly acted as Jim, the different episodes of the play would assume the coherence and interest that the production occasionally lacks...
Under pressure from House masters, the Adams House Committee this week banned the use of projectiles during the Adams House Raft Race, claiming that the race had become too violent...
...Last year it was a complete zoo," agreed Joseph P. DiNunzio '84, designer of the Adams House raft. "If we allowed it to go on this year escalating like it did, we would not have been able to hold it next year," he added...
...bury a dead character, Peter Sellars '80 dug up the floor of a tiny room in the basement of Adams House, where he staged Beckett's "Happy Days." Sellars is also remembered for a production of "Antony and Cleopatra" on a raft in the Adams House Swimming pool...
...also developing a raft of exotic technologies. These include Josephson Junction and quiteron switching devices that operate in trillionths of a second at temperatures that approach absolute zero (-459.67° F). Says one IBMer: "There's nothing, literally nothing, noteworthy in the field that IBM doesn't have its fingers into...