Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being performed "downtown"). Terry is tortured by his inability to write, a block he tries to dissolve through both hallucinations induced by lack of sleep and random acts of verbal cruelty toward his girlfriend Kathy (Lisa Sloan) and his friends from college days, Adrienne (Marianne Owen) and Wheeler (Kenneth Ryan). There is no indication by the end of the play that his problem is solved; to the contrary, it seems that Terry will never write successfully again...
...only blot on the premiere is Kenneth Ryan, who lacks a sense of comic timing as Wheeler, stepping on some of Leib's best laugh lines. Which is a shame, because Terry is a very funny play, and depends on its humor to reach those for whom absurdism is not an assumption. (I am thinking particularly of the middle-aged audience that grew up with, not after Camus...
HOUSTON ASTROS--Yeah, two pitchers on the team combined for 536 strikeouts last year, but Terry Puhl led the Astros in home runs with eight. Nolan Ryan is a good (not great: 16-14 with baseball's hardest-hitting team last year) pitcher, but Houston got almost-perfect pitching in '79 and still didn't win. What they lacked--and still lack--is hitting. Joe Morgan, their only off-season acquisition other than Ryan, is a valuable ballplayer, but his bat can't carry a team. Third...
CALIFORNIA ANGELS: They lost fireballer Nolan Ryan to free-agency, but they gained Bruce Kison, shortstop Freddy Patek and right-fielder Al Cowens. Of course, there's always MVP Don Baylor...
...addition to Skocpol and Dowling, Faculty members of the committee are Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House, and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Joseph F. McDonough '81, Natasha Pearl '82, Nancy Northrop '81, and Elizabeth E. Ryan '81, are student members of the committee