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Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris...
...Huskies and coach Fernie Flaman, a former Bruin star who possesses the world's most beautifully broken nose. The Garden erupted in the greatest hockey upset of the year--to that point. Who could've imagined a couple of old Pot participants name of Eruzione, Craig and Silk would lead the U.S. past the mighty Soviets...
...core of every magic trick is a lie. When the silk has changed its color, when the chosen card has appeared, when the billiard balls have multiplied, rest assured that some lie has been told. The silk, the card, the balls--they do not tell the lie. The lie is not in the performance, but in the observation...
Despite her protestations, every line reflects an unquenchable zest for living. As a young woman, she is fascinated with a nest of garter snakes, looking "like so many silk shoelaces." In middle age she embraces a languid October day, which has a "warmth so imperious and so gentle that it seems a form of grace." About the same time she meets the man who is to become her third husband. "The sea and the sand have become my native elements," she exclaims. "So is love. Am I not an abominable creature? (I need you to assure me otherwise...
...Seymour plays Mozart's wife Constanze warmly and fetchingly. Nicholas Kepros must also be singled out for the feline subtlety of his portrayal of Emperor Joseph II, brother of Marie Antoinette. Here are the mean, mangling whims of absolute power expressed by a man with a tongue of silk and a tone-deaf brain. In some ways, he is Peter Shaffer's most exquisitely precise creation of the evening...