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...thousand tiny judgments and intuitions, all to make the craft disappear and the character materialize. George Grizzard, who died this week at a much-too-young 79, had that gift. Of course he was Nick in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Of course he was John Adams in the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles. When he played any number of brash young men in TV anthology series, he was those men, as just as easily, or magically, the flinty gents of Judgment at Nuremberg and revivals of Albee's A Delicate Balance...
...came on my radar in the early '60s. I saw him on stage in Virginia Woolf, where he was Nick, a cocky young professor whom an older college couple (Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen) have fun unmanning on their way to their own, more melancholy accommodation with reality. He also made an impression in a big movie, the political drama Advise and Consent, as a snaky, pre-Cheney Wyoming Senator, trying to blackmail a colleague for an early brush with homosexuality. In my innocent appreciation, I didn't think he was good at playing bad guys; I thought...
...Allen's Small Time Crooks), but the critically acclaimed actor George Grizzard made his name onstage with complex, emotionally demanding roles in plays by Neil Simon, Clifford Odets and, most famously, Edward Albee. As the assaulted Nick in the original 1962 production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Grizzard, wrote a critic, "shifted from geniality to intensity with shattering rightness." Fittingly, when he took home the Best Actor Tony in 1996, it was for his insightful portrayal of patriarch Tobias in the revival of Albee's A Delicate Balance. Grizzard...
...Republicans have rejected this largely negative picture, and urged a postponement of Tuesday's hearing until official inquiries into the company's actions are complete. Representative Thomas Davis of Virginia, the top Republican on the House panel , defended the company, saying, "The Blackwater contract is hardly an open-ended license for out-of-control 'cowboys' to shoot up Baghdad...
...Malan wrote in an e-mailed statement, referring to his pet creation. This innovation comes on the heels of other technological developments, including an emergency text-messaging alert system put into place this semester in the wake of last spring’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Harvard affiliates can join the alert system by registering their cell phone numbers at the Web site messageme.harvard.edu. Another development for shuttle users is an LED screen in Cabot House’s dining hall, which displays the departure time and final destination of the next shuttle. The project, the brainchild of former...