Word: room
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There wasn't much talking in the Harvard dressing room after the Dartmouth game last Saturday, but slumped in a corner in front of a row of lockers, Bob Dowd was quietly saying it all for the Crimson varsity...
...atmosphere was strange in the locker room last Saturday. The Crimson defensive unit had been superb. It had strangled Dartmouth's nationally-rated offense. It had scored Harvard's only touchdown on a blocked punt. It had done a job that would have won Harvard the game if the offense had been able to supplement its efforts. But the offense hadn't. The defense knew it and was frustrated. The offense knew...
...very muggy in the Ohio Valley on summer evenings. A person either sits in his living room and swelters from the heat or sits in his air-conditioned living room and sniffles from his luxury. In either case, he is not delighted to have a college-age kid, smiling sincerely but dripping with sweat, cluttering his front porch and ringing his doorbell...
Around midnight though one of them starts chasing his girl (who at 8 p.m. was your girl) around the room. He rips down the curtains, spills the booze, and picks up quite an audience in the process...
...also worked on sense awareness. One day I told the group to be a donut. They spent a long time just standing in a circle until they began to understand doneness. Then we took bites away by having people leave the room, and we tried to understand at what point the donut stopped being a donut. Then I had them be the hole, then try to understand the difference between a jelly donut and a glazed donut. If you can understand how to convey 'donut' theatrically, you can play any character. Also we tried to understand what nonverbal communication means...