Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caroline Hall and Randall Jaynes, playing the title characters Bette and Boo, make a convincingly disfunctional couple. Hall in particular shines as the wistful Bette, a woman whose surface seems trite but who claims a deeply troubled and romantic interior. Perhaps the most touching scene in the play is a monologue Bette delivers on the phone to an old girlfriend she has lost touch with. For the first time in the production, Bette sheds her exterior flakiness and openly reveals the profoundly disappointed young woman she has become. Hall excellently maneuvers between Bette's exterior stupidity and interior complexity, consistently...
...note with a playful fugue on the text of "Et vitam venturi saeculi," (and the life of the world to come.), inspired by Bach's similar usage in his Mass in b minor. Brewer and Clemont's capricious interplay, along with the matching figures in the winds, added a touch of lightheartedness to contrast with the introspective mood of the Credo...
...most people so scared of touching you that the very idea of coming into contact with your body makes their skin crawl? Don't worry about it. Harvard Health and Fitness knows that entire populations are terrified of touching Harvard students. Licensed massage therapists offer their services once a week and they have to touch you. It's their job. Noon to 2 p.m., UHS, 2nd floor. 495-9629. $10 for 10 minutes...
Junior midfielder Julia Blain took the touch, but she struck the ball poorly, and her shot rolled harmlessly wide...
...Coach: the afternoon begins with a good half-hour of calisthenics, fancy footwork, warm-ups and stretching. After that comes time dedicated to "working with the weapon," then a period of partner work. Next is a lesson on the particular skill or technique of the day, and the final touch is a few good rounds of actual bouting. In addition to the cardiovascular demands, the skills of the foil are impressive and hard to attain. Perhaps the sabre team has a future as Jedi stunt doubles in the next Star Wars movie...