Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will kill Ward within 48 hours. The resulting anarchy smacks of both the Marx brothers and Sleuth and produces two good performances, from Kenneth Oilman as Ward and Kristoffer Tabori as Leeds. Mark Medoff, whose play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? was an off-Broadway success last season, has a rare talent for juxtaposing fear and fun. Though The Wager lacks enough emotional depth to make Medoff's high speed verbal games truly revealing of character and motive, this is his best play so far, and it seems to signal even better plays to come...
...forge this climax with an eloquence that regains the balance that had been lacking, and articulate the final poignant moments so well that the full effect is saved. To do justice to a dramatic moment of such sophistication and complexity is not an easy thing. With even a qualified success, this production is a cut or two above Ex standards...
...Fear of Success...
Harvard's recent success has been spearheaded by sophomore Bullard. Since being moved from halfback to his current striker position three games ago, Bullard supplied the team's entire offensive output by notching five goals...
...trying to restore some of the freshness of his old voice. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he is merely awkward. For example, one of the best things about Auden's early poetry was the way he integrated popular speech into his own poetic voice; but that kind of success is largely a question of touch, of getting the nuance just right, and Auden doesn't seem to have been able to assimilate the characteristic phrases of the sixties as well as those of the twenties...