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...ready for the Eastern Championship [in three weeks]," butterflier Sumner Anderson said. "Princeton will be our stiffest competition, but the word is out that we are a contender. Most teams shave and taper at least once during December and January. By the time the Eastern Championships roll around, we have an advantage because our first taper is not until February...

Author: By Henry Hudepohl, | Title: Aquamen, Aquawomen Sweep Big Red | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

KING LEAR. Anglo-Irish wunderkind Kenneth Branagh, acclaimed for his demythologizing film of Henry V, makes his U.S. stage debut as director and co-star of a similarly populist Lear, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Feb. 12, 1990 | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

When Britain's new and little-known Renaissance troupe was booked to play King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the nine-week run sold out before the first preview. The draw: the U.S. stage debut of the company's founder, Kenneth Branagh, 28. His gutsy current film of Henry V has won him comparison to Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. As he did in the film, Branagh onstage would triple as impresario, director and star -- with the fillip of featuring his wife of five months, Emma Thompson, as Midsummer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dimming Shakespeare's Glories | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Some stretch and others jog lightly. Some taper their practice routines and others push themselves even harder...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Grapplers Sweep in Warmup for Cornell | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...Solar (Sound of the Tenement) are in the midst of completing three new records for the Elektra label -- a live recording plus two studio albums -- to be released over the next three years. He will also try to squeeze in a drama workshop at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, based on Dead Man Out, the HBO movie in which he stirringly portrays a death-row prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBEN BLADES: Singer, Actor, Politico | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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