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...recently won a record 15 games in a row without noticeably speeding up the nation's heartbeat. To Americans, hockey can appear an unfathomable melee of white, toothless Canadians padded like moonwalkers and armed to the gums with crooked sticks. Lately the perception of hockey as iced-over roller derby is more prevalent than ever, what with retired Philadelphia Flyer Dave Schultz (most penalty minutes alltime) regretting the hockey "enforcer's" life in his new memoirs, and the Los Angeles Kings' Paul Mulvey refusing to answer his coach's call to fight. Onto this thin...
...artist Elee Koplow took an extra precaution to insure the safety of the playground floor that she designed with David Juddleson for the Hurely St. playground. "We asked four neighborhood kids to help us build the floor, and then we included them in the design, first by depicting them roller skating and then allowing them to write graffiti around their picture." Koplow explains. The ornately decorated piece has remained intact...
Dunaway caroms onstage as a 14-year-old on roller skates and it may just be the larkiest moment of the poor girl's life. Orphaned all too soon, Frances Duffy is sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels...
Throughout the play's five acts, performed without intermission, the note most often sounded is that of the homey cliche. Childhood ("Friday Night Dreams Come True") is two little girls on roller skates, singing and giggling over love-notes. Lonely young adulthood ("The Curse of an Aching Heart") is a parade of idiosyncratic young men and irate foreign neighbors, and the ups and downs of a love affair with a smooth young Irishman named Lugs (Terrance O'Quinn), whom Fran eventually marries. Continuity is a hard-boiled, comical best friend. "The trauma of growing...
...people have the wrong idea about women's ice hockey. Who knows where they pick it up, but they picture some sort of roller-derby-revised, an "unladylide" pseudo-sport. "Most people are really surprised when I tell them I play hockey," says Firkins Reed, co-captain of Harvard's women's team. "Some are intrigued, but others think it's awful and the sport ought to be abolished. 'Women don't play football,' they...