Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STRIDER Galloping off-Broadway to the Great White Way comes Strider, an allegorical comedy--with music--adapted from a Tolstoy short story about a horse. Unequivocably theatrical, the cast of Strider turns a bare stage into a field, a stable, a palace, a racetrack and a Russian steppe. Without pretension, from the first beats of Russian folk music to the last piercing neigh of Strider's death, this play uncovers the inhumanity of man, the horrors of a class system and the evil of ethnic, sexual, and age discrimination--delightfully...
...Harvard, hoping to bask once more in the glow of an upset victory in enemy territory, struck back less than two minutes later with a finely manicured short-handed goal...
Pianist Bobby Short. That did not mean that the feisty composer had been defused. When one admirer became too mushy, the balding Thomson protested: "Get this man out of my hair...
...other talk still comes through. I suspect she and Gracie still do it behind closed doors." The twins now register IQ scores of 80 (up from 50) and have mastered simple reading and mathematical skills. The question of whether their remarkable private communication might hide a superior intelligence short-circuited by emotional problems is still unanswered...
...when she doesn't see some relation or other. Divorced and the mother of an eleven-year-old daughter, she is at her most eloquent when tackling subjects close to home. "The pleasure of being a parent," she wrote last year, "is the extraordinary experience of having short people who hang around a while, who change you as they change, who push and prod and aggravate and thrill you and make life fuller...