Word: rains
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard golfers, the rainy weather actually helped to keep scores lower. The greens at The Course are traditionally firm, but the rain softened things out, making for an easier hold...
...overtime had elapsed under a tumultuous black sky, as the Crimson battled its rival Bulldogs on Yale’s home turf during the Ivy League opener this past Saturday. The whistle blew, signaling the beginning of the second extra period and the departure of the heavy rain that had plagued both teams for the entire game...
...these two: star vehicle. Usually they mean either that some old warhorse has been revived merely to service the career needs of a Hollywood ego, or that a flimsy new construction has been trundled onstage just to see how much of the scenery can be chewed up. A Steady Rain,a new Broadway play by Keith Huff starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel (James Bond) Craig, raises another warning flag the minute the lights go up. The two actors are the only people on stage, talking directly to the audience, and the play is little more than a pair of interwoven...
...Steady Rain turns out to be better than I had any right to expect - better, in fact, than any new American play on Broadway since August Osage County.Its two stars, an Australian and a Brit playing a pair of Chicago cops, are startlingly good: magnetic, commanding the stage (neither is a theater neophyte) yet totally absorbed in their characters, enhancing the play rather than bending it to their will. (Read "What's New on Broadway...
...another Chicago-set play that has just opened on Broadway: Superior Donuts,Tracy Letts' so-so follow-up to his superb August Osage County.The story of an aging proprietor of an inner-city donut shop and the street kid who comes to work for him, it (like A Steady Rain) purports to have some street cred. But the thugs who menace the young employee (leaning on him to pay off gambling debts) look like B-movie retreads, the off-screen violence seems manufactured for effect, and the denouement is far more sentimental...