Word: stalwartism
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...Dreamgirls. "It's a constant battle, and it can beat you if you let it." Some do let it, and along with the stories of the little understudy who could, there are legends of the little stand-ins who couldn't. Once, long ago, that old stalwart Dorothy Gish finally missed a performance of Life with Father. Called in after a year of standing by, her understudy fled into the night - never to be seen on Broadway again...
...real stalwart of the B.U. squad is junior goalie Lisa Whitcomb. A Stoneham, Mass. native, Whitcomb has recorded three shutouts in four Beanpot appearances and had a hot tournament two years ago when the Terriers won the classic...
...expect the surgery to succeed. By week's end, however, Dr. Peterson reported that Clark "had gone from a man who was blue from not enough oxygen before surgery to being pink." He was also talking, moving his arms and legs and, thanks to a stalwart plastic heart, beginning to enjoy a life on borrowed time...
...even the best programs break the mold; they only burnish it. The shows that hunker down on the middle ground content themselves with switching standard characters and stories around, rearranging furniture in an old house that actually needs razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family...
...Bayreuth Festival, however, can see him as something other than a stalwart. In a brilliant bit of casting against type, the suave, silken Prey has been portraying the cantankerous Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. It may be the first time in history that Beckmesser out-sings his tenor rival in the prize-song contest. "In his letters, Wagner said that Beckmesser should not be too comic," says Prey. "So I said I will sing this music like Schubert's Winterreise. "And he does...