Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown came right back with first in (unexpectedly) the weight throw and the 60-yd, hurdles. Then Hasan Kayali and Sola Mahoney opened the door a crack with a one-two Harvard finish in the long jump. A few minutes later, Harvard kicked the door in. Wayne Moore, Ralph Polillio and Joe Salvo swept the 60-yd. dash. Before the night was over the Crimson Harriers went on to sweep three more events and place the top two finishers in four others...
...third Crimson sweep of the evening came in the 60 yard dash, where Harvard runners Wayne Moore, Ralph Polillio, and Joe Salvo left their Bruin competition behind, if not in a cloud of dust, then in a flurry of little pink eraser stubs...
...Past Tense begins, the stage is not quite bare. The stripped-down living room contains two sets of hand luggage-his and hers-and a sofa shrouded in a white slipcover, symbolic, perhaps, of a once warm marital bed. But Emily (Barbara Baxley) and Ralph Michaelson (George Grizzard) soon fill the room with the emotional furnishings of their life together. So much of love is shared experience that a permanent parting seems unreal...
This play is likely to alter its coloration depending on who plays the two parts. Barbara Baxley's Emily is crisp, managerial as well as motherly and yet touchingly vulnerable. George Grizzard's Ralph is Little Boy Blue, destined never to grow up yet always capable of a last-ditch courage bordering on the heroic. It is the most compassionate portrayal of a man that Grizzard has yet achieved...
...play's quality lies in the performances of the supporting cast, and the actors of The Tempest all put a maximal effort into their parts. Particularly noteworthy are Johanna Defenderfer and Eva Simmons as Stephano and Trinculo, a pair of fear-stricken, drunken and very funny sailors. Ralph Zito turns in a macho, manic performance as Ariel, the spirit forced to do Prospero's blading. Joe White, as Sebastian, gets off some well-delivered lines, and Paul Rosta is a perfectly doddering, if one-dimensional, old fool as Gonzalo. The rest of the sailors and nobles are adequate...