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...Meter Run--1. Meredith Rainey, Harvard, 24.90; 2. Betsy Cuervo, Dartmouth, 24.92; 3. Andia Thomas, Brown...
...Meters--1. Meredith Rainey, Harvard, 54.0; 2. Kim Deasy, Brown, 58.9; 3. Kate English, Brown...
Freshman Meredith Rainey turned in a great afternoon, winning the 400-meter run in 54 seconds and the 200-meter race with a time...
August Wilson's first commercially produced work, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran more than eight months on Broadway, won the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play and marked the emergence of a substantial new voice for the American theater. A self-taught man who dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Wilson, 41, announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened...
...explosive violence that flows from his characters and from the warping effect racism has had upon them. Humiliated in the larger world, these people fiercely guard their dignity close to home. Defeated by enemies too distant to see, they lash out at their own kind -- a colleague in Ma Rainey, a son in Fences. These confrontations can seem like old-fashioned melodrama in comparison with the plotless minimalism now in vogue. But Wilson has the weight of history on his side. If Troy Maxson turns tyrant, betraying his wife with a younger woman and blasting his son's chances...