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Throughout On the Verge these "Victorian lady travellers" engage in an endless volley of pithy, alliterative, and highly allusive language. Plagiarizing from sources as varied as Joyce, Shakespeare, and the slang of fifties Americana, they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...

Author: By Carey Monserrate, | Title: Pithy Peregrinations at the Loeb Ex | 10/12/1990 | See Source »

Whether Weld can return the rhetorical volley, he says, remains to be seen...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Running in the Political Fall Classic | 9/22/1990 | See Source »

...serve-and-volley specialist, Shyjan upset the defending national champion, LSU's Donni Leaycraft, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5, in Harvard's 5-3 loss to the fourth-ranked Tigers in the second round of the tournament...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Serve and Volley | 5/23/1990 | See Source »

...future looks bright for the Harvard men's volley ball team, but only because the past has been...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: M. Spikers Drop Two Of Three in Tourney | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...have a running superstition. I pass out two jelly beans to each player before each match." Chang said. "Mike Shyjan. for example, relies on his net and services game. So, he takes a yellow `tennis control pill' for his volley and a blue one for his serves. Since we've adhered to this practice, We haven't lost a match...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Capture U.C.-Irvine Tourney | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

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