Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson, the directors of the Charles decided to close because the prospects were not good. But the prospects for support in a city with only a handful of commercial theaters devoted to local productions are excellent. Something else is lacking, and the plays on their way to New York rush into the vacuum...
ABSENCE of money may be killing the theater, but paradoxically its presence is just as lethal. Dependence on sheerly popular appeal trumped up in out-of-town tryouts destroys more surely than boredom or even mediocrity. Theater disappears in the rush for backers to retrieve their investments. Broadway may now have found the perfect subject matter in its latest major musical, The Rothschilds, but perhaps it will only discover just how dull theater-material lucre can be. The real problem is money-not its absence, but its suffocating presence, its influence in cheapening quality, and ability to beget itself...
DeMars came on against Dartmouth to rush 18 yards in four carries and score the Crimson's final touchdown on a superb 75-yard run on a swing pass. Harrison, who gained 125 yards against Cornell, was held to only eight yards on nine carries in the Dartmouth game...
...Crimson tied the game on its first offensive rush of the second period. Charlie Thomas headed the ball to Gomez at midfield, and Gomez worked the ball past two defenders and beat goalie Dick Hansen to his left side...
...street's nameless bookstores (titles and literary allusions are for Greenwich Village) observes that two years ago customers paid little attention to the aesthetic quality of models. Now a Playmate standard has begun to assert itself in exotic literature. Most of the customers are men, with the big rush arriving just after business hours when homeward-bound commuters and tourists beginning a night on the town descend on the area. Those women who do come in are easily placed in one of two categories by the proprietors: European women peruse the shelves with little self-consciousness; American women giggle...