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...musical. Rapmaster Shecter, one of the few experienced members of the cast, is a member of the group BMOC. His single, "Guaranteed to Rock," produced by Nile Rogers, has already risen to No. 13 on the British pop chart. Shecter, who has nailed all the gesticulations and the rhyme schemes, has no problems with the rap numbers...
...Cocktail Party is a mature play, and it is appropriate that it is performed by a more mature cast than most Harvard productions (the actors are all Divinity School students who took a class on Eliot as theologian). However, to paraphrase the children's rhyme, when the acting is good, it's very, very good, but when it's bad, it's horrid...
Actually, Barbara Death pronounces her last name to rhyme with teeth. Her heads-up play on a delayed penalty spoiled Harvard goalie Jennifer White's shutout. And that was something to be proud...
Meyers' ingenious group portrait shows his subjects linked by a kinship of misery. Colleagues praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell...
...daily playercise," burbles Instructor Jackie Rubenstein, as she launches into a nursery-like rhyme: "Open, shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap, and put them in your lap, lap, lap . . ." On cue, 19 mothers seated in a circle on the floor grasp the wrists of the toddlers before them and dutifully push and pull tiny arms and hands. Rubenstein changes her tune, tykes are settled on their backs, and mothers pedal little limbs bicycle- style. Then to a third ditty, with youngsters in their laps, mothers inch their hips forward to the center of the ring where they lift...