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...form, something actors practice while they are waiting for the big break into television or movies. But now, with the enthusiasm of a convert, the city has discovered a secret the Greeks knew 2,500 years ago: there is nothing so exciting as a live performance. The nonprofit Mark Taper Forum has become a showcase for serious, innovative drama; dozens of tiny, off-off-Broadway type theaters have sprung up in the shadow of the freeways; and big Broadway producers have found a huge, hitherto un tapped audience in what they thought was hostile territory. "The whole thing has broken...
Eddie is also a master at the tricky art of tapering. True to his stress on individuality. Eddie tapers each swimmer differently, pulling some out of the water completely and only moderately reducing the yardage and intensity for others. "I don't know how to taper at all," Eddie jokes, but it just seems to turn out right every year...
...good effort today, but almost everyone lost stamina during reading period and exams," Hays said, adding that she plans to train the team through next weekend's meet against Princeton, and then taper them for the contest against Yale on February...
...Bove, was so popular with the show's preschool audience that she became a regular member of the cast, playing the part of a deaf actress and spawning entire playgrounds of tots weaving tiny finger patterns in the air. At least one major theater, Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, reserves two performances of every production for the deaf, with a translator using sign language at the side of the stage to tell what the actors are saying. A major breakthrough came last month when Children of a Lesser God, a play about the romance of a deaf woman...
...Mexico State University's production of Children, Steinberg, the only one around who knew how to sign, played the part of James. But when Gordon Davidson took the play to the Mark Taper Forum, John Rubinstein, 33, a more experienced actor, took on the role...