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...course, if Harvard will be at its most dangerous when it forces Yale to bring on punter Greg Bowman. The Crimson has already blocked six punts this season and tipped three other Rob Sims punts last week...
...world-class efforts, but all five of the Crimson's scorers finished in the top 100. Mike Evans was the second Harvard runner to cross the line and 65th overall. Todd Evans stayed with the race's lead pack for the first few miles, before falling back to 73rd. Rob Benjamin and Skardon Baker (who will captain the Crimson next year) finished 88th and 100th, respectively...
This neurotic energy undermines the various dramatic moments of the play. Tense and serious moments are delivered with the same frenetic energy as humorous ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential...
This problem of dramatic tension and variation is complicated by the fact that this play treats itself with frank absurdity and insouciance. As Rob remarks at one point, "Even when something happens here, nothing happens." The text seems to strive for the bizarre comedy of nothingness epitomized in Waiting For Godot. In Beckett's work, though nothing happens, the audience is satisfied and even amused. But these characters lack the magnetism and originality of a Vladimir or an Estragon...
Dorf and Williams have created a play with the form of absurdity, but lacking in the witty and poignant content that makes Godot so appealing. The audience drowns in a verbal melange that finally forces us to ask, along with Rob, "Is this story going somewhere...