Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course impossible for students to convincingly portray a demi-atlas and a serpent. Gordon Snyder as Antony was the less auspicious failure, while Susan Yakutis, charged with the greatest woman's role in drama, seemed more afraid than madequate. Snyder lapsed into manneristic anger, often indulging in worthless shouting; Miss Yakutis lapsed into the torpor rather than the lightning of a serpent, and was manneristic in her fire. Neither penetrated to the fire of the heroic ardor of will, the incandescent poignancy of love. A line shouted is a line destroyed. Neither actor was able to go beyond the lines...
...roles are long and unsurpassable difficult. Miss Yakutis has a good deal of breath and body control but was the most mechanical and aloof I have ever seen her. Snyder was repetitive in gesture and volume, and is in fact, exceedingly careless in his part. I doubt that he comprehends the nature of Antony's shame in the great scene III, XI. for he was clamorous and brutal. This is the still moment of shame. The tone should be lyrical self-examination, during the exhaustion of shame through to the reassertion of resolve. It is the tone of Achilles...
Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder is still alive-but not very well-in Las Vegas. In the last two Super Bowls, the king of the odds makers has been wrong by a grand total of 55 points. Last year he rated the American Football League's upstart New York Jets 17-point underdogs against the National Football League's vaunted Baltimore Colts. Score: Jets 16, Colts 7. This year Snyder rated the N.F.L. Minnesota Vikings 13 points better than the A.F.L.'s Kansas City Chiefs. The Greek's calculations included six points for the Vikings' offense...