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...actually tried to reproduce Shiny Happy C-26 in Harvard's somber libraries. During reading period last semester, John Black caught a ride to Lamont in a coat pocket. We read Freud and Civil War history, and he sat aside patiently, his mouth open wide in an ecstatic grin. He wanted us to do well; we're sure of this. We get loving support from all our little toy pals...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: A Toys-R-Us Antidote To Loneliness | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...Naughton and director Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment of the abrupt sexual infatuation and love-suicide pact of a pair of 13-year-olds. Shakespeare could bring it off in Verona. In Guare's rural Sicily, it seems mere wind. Mae West couldn't make it worse, and Richard Burbage couldn't make it better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give My Regards To Malibu | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...Eating Out," by Marcia Dixey, proves to be the only play that fails to produce any humor. The topic of eating disorders is an important one that must be addressed, but this skit seems inappropriately somber in the context of the whole show. The audience squirmed as they witnessed an anorexic (Vickie Hornobostel), a bulimic (Marlie Jacobs) and a former speed addict (Pam Shores) discussing their relationships with food...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Acting, Direction Make for Lively 'Life' and 'God': | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

Harvard, forced to contend with injuries, had to settle its somber performance...

Author: By Ishani Maitra, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: W. Track Takes Fourth at Heps | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

...century sculptors, Brancusi did the most to combine a reductive, Modernist sensibility with the language and techniques of vernacular carpentry. There are echoes of the great Romanian right through this show, from the roughly notched beam like a huge crosscut-saw blade in Some Tales, 1975-77, to the somber egglike or coffin- shaped forms of Maroon, 1987-88, or Lever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delight in A Shaping Hand | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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