Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shooting baskets, and we find out later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play, and, incredibly, is seen by one of his ex-teammates when he leaves the stage. Whether Thompson means to suggest that this particular jock has special vision which permits him insights into the spirit-world is nuclear. But the effect again is of clumsy, misdirected symbolism in a play that should be presented as intensely realistic...
Laquidara's failures take their toll on the rest of the cast. Jon Terry as James captures the essence of the resentful, mediocre man in his every movement and expression. As he ambles around the stage, shoulders slightly hunched, you can feel it in his bearing: These people are using me. They are out to humiliate me. And his occasional outbursts of rage create a varied texture in his performance; but these moments, which should be the strongest, are ruined, since Laquidara in confronting him is so unforceful. James's "impotent" tantrums appear overwhelming in contrast...
...wasn't really the Harvard Summer School Chamber Players that performed in Sanders Theater on Tuesday night. Its members were all on stage, true--but as the nucleus of a chamber orchestra whose roster included some of Boston's best free-lance musicians. Accordingly, Tuesday night's performance, the sixth and last in the Chambers Players series, was marked by brisk enthusiasm and a high level of technical competence...
Acute, curative, technology-dependent medicine reached its apogee in the 1960s-and, as expectations rose, so did the costs. The expense of medical care had reached a critical stage with the Depression of 1929-32, when individuals found it increasingly difficult to pay their medical bills. The private sector in the 1930s developed the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance system of prepayment for hospitals and physicians. In the public sector, the Social Security mechanism and general tax revenues were used to pay the costs of the indigent sick, the disabled, the elderly and such special groups as veterans, migrant farmers...
...veteran sportscasters behaved and misbehaved predictably. In boxing, Howard Cosell was so partial to the U.S. fighters that it seemed he had got his early training as a stage mother. Chris Schenkel displayed his familiar aptitude for the gauche remark. Said Schenkel when Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne got back on her horse after a spill seen round the world: "That's a gritty little princess." A lot of time and tape was wasted on discothèques and street scenes. Pierre Salinger floundered through several such features until he abandoned Montreal's tourist haunts to report...