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There were many great scenes in this production, but two in particular stood out. In the first act, Priour delivered a fantastic soliloquy about his character’s love for Melissa, addressed to himself in the bedroom mirror and punctuated by occasional breaths from an inhaler...
...whiff (fetid, of course) of the exploitation-movie past. The screening was on 12th Street in Manhattan's East Village, and my walk took me along 14th Street past a prime grind house, the Metropolitan Theatre - or rather past the hole in the ground where the Metropolitan once stood. There used to be a film stills shop next door: Movie Star News, whose proprietor, Irving Klaw, supplemented his income by making and selling films of bondage princess Bettie Page...
...that benefited humanity. He dedicated himself to the cause of world peace and, after encouraging the U.S. to build the atom bomb to defeat Hitler, worked diligently to find ways to control such weapons. He raised money to help fellow refugees, spoke out for racial justice and publicly stood up for those who were victims of McCarthyism. And he tried to live with a humor, humility, simplicity and geniality even as he became one of the most famous faces on the planet...
...actually had no idea when Harvard was going to let me know...so I just clicked on [the e-mail] very casually,” she said in a phone interview. “I was at work...I just stood up and turned around and said ‘I just got into Harvard.’ My boss couldn’t hear what I was saying, so I screamed it in the middle of the office...
...going to have to work for it.But Hagamen was up to the task, fighting his way to the final bout against Ghattas. He went 19-3 in round-robin competition before the final bracket, good enough for first entering the final round. Ohio State’s Mike Momteselidze stood in his way in the semifinal bout, but Hagamen took care of him 15-7 before pulling out the victory over Ghattas by the slimmest of margins, 15-14.“[The final bout] absolutely could’ve gone either way,” Hagamen said...