Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind by five points, 60-55, with 1:37 remaining in the contest, the Harvard quintet, sparked by Fleming's outside jumpers and accurate free throw shooting, climber to within one at 60-59 with 1:25 still to show on the clock. The Bruins attempted to run the clock out, playing keep-away from the Crimson by dribbling in circles all over the court...
...College Bowl, an inter-college intellectual competition, may fast become Harvard's newest varsity sport. During the competition, which is modeled on the old College Bowl television show but not televised, two teams from different colleges match wits answering questions on a variety of topics...
...weathered theater goers noticed him, but as the program wore on, even the most uncultivated picked up on his being there. By evening's end, it was clear that it was the spectral presence of the ghost of that late, great form of entertainment, vaudeville, which had made the show. Yes, the program contained lively music, and a captivating, even heroic, effort from Joe Masiell, but its recreation of a past era was what set it apart. For those in the audience who remembered vaudeville--The Palace, the lonely spotlight, that special rapport between individual performer and audience--this production...
...lithe, practiced, crudely handsome Italian (his agent chopped the "o" off the end of his surname) with a contagious delight in performing. On stage for the entire production, he performs all but one of its numbers. Joe Masiell--as he himself emphasizes--has had a checkered career in show business. "It's been a push, a battle, a struggle for a long while," he commented after opening night. "I've been at it since 1960 and, let's see, I've been in 12 flops, count 'em folks, 12." Masiell, who starred for ten years in Jacques Brel Is Alive...
...bring this show off, Masiell and director James Coco should probably have tried for a bigger stage, better songs, a little less autobiography, and tighter dialogue. But they're forgiven. For there's a rare, healthy sense of humanity here, some cutting irony, a sizable dose of humor, and much well-considered social commentary. And besides, the ghost was there, and that alone is enough. Masiell's clearly not up there with Marlene Dietrich or Maurice Chevalier, and no, we are not at The Palace but I, for one, have never been closer...