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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...queen could scarcely be dopier") don't seem up to the rest of his script, either. In the second act, the silliness of having songs at all often lends them a certain amount of sense, as in the case of a ballad sung in suitably Gilbert-and-Sullivanish style by Greg Minahan, as a response to Otto da Fe's discovery of half the cast in the act of escape from his deadliest dungeon. But in the first act, especially, not even Voight Kempson's professional choreography makes the songs more than pleasant breaks in the action...

Author: By Seth Kupferherg, | Title: A Fractured Fairy Tale | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

Palm, a graduate student in English and a former volleyball star at Yale, changed a limping offense to a successful Olympic-style 6-0 game-controlling strategy where three front court men set to the three front court men for the spike and the point...

Author: By Kathleen T. Riley, | Title: Volleyball Team Faces Eastern Meet | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

Some three minutes after that, Bolduc shoots off a dedicated Clarkson defender and swooped in Terry O'Reilly-style to light the lamp once again. Bolduc then took the ensuing face-off from center ice six seconds later and scored on a slap that for the hat trick...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Icemen Dump Clarkson, 10-5 | 3/5/1975 | See Source »

Sanders's conservative basketball philosophy was the source of constant conflict. Those team members who mastered his slow-down style of offense were more often seen in action than those who preferred to fastbreak. The final record is the lone indicator of whose style is best. That and the fact that more often than not the second team beat the first in practice...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

...MOST INTERESTING work by these men in the exhibition, however, departs from this style. Kline is capable of using a few of his characteristic thick black strokes to suggest a face in Nijinsky. The same economy of line makes his more traditional drawing, David Orr's Mother, just as intriguing. Although most of the page is blank, Kline chooses lines that make the white areas play an integral role in the portrait. Guston, in Untitled, 1953, and Drawing No. 19 uses contrast in the quality of his strokes to create the illusion of depth in his shapes...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Taming Action Painting | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

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