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...gained a reputation as a small pond that spawned big fish, and as veterans took off for Broadway or Hollywood, eager newcomers arrived to take their places. "Everyone will tell you we all loved one another," snorts Rivers, who arrived in the early '60s. "But when the rundown for the night's show was posted, people would say, 'What do you mean my scene is not on tonight...
...already clinched first place, and Harvard, Clarkson and Cornell have already clinched home ice. Here's a rundown of potential playoff scenarios...
...increasing number of tenure rejections it receives. However, small wood frame houses cannot be considered major incentives to incoming faculty. Most professors prefer to live in Watertown or Newton already and have no desire to move their families to Cambridge. If anything, the only incentive is to purchase these rundown structures, perform expensive reconstructions, and resell them a few years later for a fat profit...
...writes up tragedies every day, stories about Chuckie, an 8-year-old autistic foster child, or 8-year-old David, whose penniless aunt rescued him from his mentally ill mother who threw dishes and chairs at him and his three sisters, or about 6-year-old Peter from a rundown public housing project who wrote to Globe Santa asking that his 4-year-old sister Martha get some dolls to play with...
...efficiently evokes the backstage of a rundown vaudeville house, with three large panels of circus-patterned scrim backstage. At several points, backlit actors pantomime the offstage action of the play, alleviating the inevitable boredom of this regrettable Elizabethean convention. But McDonough cannot stop with this modest tactic; he has to include pantomimed metaphor's of the onstage action. Of many egregious examples, the backstage portrayal of a catfight during Bianca's and Katherina's second-act sparring manages to be as insulting as it is cliched...