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...giants on the stage were the main attraction, however. At the shows opening, Michael Stone introduces his character, John, with an uncanny ability to make his face seem more insane than the character he is playing. Although he seems to start with a stiff, unnatural pose and tone of voice, it becomes apparent as the show progresses that stiffness belongs to the character and not the actor. That stiffness plays an important part in ironing down the characters' drug addiction and even making them funny...
...proposal to use casino boats to raise money for a new megaplex in the Boston area could face stiff political opposition from Cambridge civic leaders...
Charles Kimbrough, who plays the painfully stiff anchorman Jim Dial on the TV sitcom Murphy Brown, makes this performance subtler and deeper and eschews the trademark grimaces of someone who has just smelled something foul. The action unfolds during a cocktail party where he meets, courts, wins and loses a woman (the incandescent Maureen Anderman) whom he knew three decades before. The youthful infatuation ended with her offering herself and his declining, not out of prudishness but from a lifelong premonition that something terrible was going to happen and from a courtly determination not to have anyone share his doom...
Although the bank faces stiff competition, especially form larger lenders such as Baybank and Shawmut, Mullins says his mortgage executives are committed to soliciting loans throughout the city...
...open division, you can fight a real stiff, or you might fight an Olympic hopeful," Clarke says...