Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone loves a winner, then the Harvard football team must be making out like freshman pre-meds with skin condition. The folks around Cambridge, accustomed to Joe Restic's Crimson bringing home more than its share of victories, have raised eyebrows as well as voices about the Crimson's less than thrilling efforts of the past two weeks--a 17-0 loss to UMass and a 38-21 trouncing by Colgate...
...modern society." Unfortunately, Paul Robeson never really gets around to shedding light on that problem. It doesn't seem likely that a one-man show could ever provide the vehicle for such an investigation, but it will be nice when American theater can afford to probe further under the skin of a man like Robeson.ROBESON as Othello...
...sets would be closed, he explained, but there would be cameramen, technicians. "You're going to lie there like a piece of meat while they adjust the lighting. We can't use a double; the skin colors would be wrong. And some camera guy is going to run a tape measure down from his lens to your ass?zip!?to get his focus right. Can you work with that...
Boston is the home of not only the bean and the cod but also the aptly named Combat Zone. The city set aside this seedy downtown area three years ago for X-rated movies, porn shops and other facets of the skin trade-in hopes of being able to contain them. But over the past year, violence has followed the vice: a Harvard football player was fatally stabbed, an exotic dancer was strangled, and a brisk trade in guns sprang up. Looking for ways to curb the rough stuff without closing the zone down, the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...attributes of the other types but infuses them all with a gambler's nerve and a yachtman's strategic flair. Like the proper British fox-hunter, though, he insists through it all that he's only in it for the sport, old chap, and of course we won't skin him when the hunt is over...