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...list of veterans is headed up by not one, but two outstanding goalies--juniors Stephen Hall and Chad Reilly. Hall is a talented European player who started four games for a 1.25 goals-against average before bowing out due to illness. Reilly, a walk-on two years ago and back-up as of September, by December found himself sparking the squad's Final Four drive...
...bother to film Verdi's Otello if you are going to omit its most famous aria, the haunting Willow Song, thus reducing Desdemona to a walk-on? Director Franco Zeffirelli never quite answers that question. The flamboyant Italian's 1983 cinematic version of La Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino...
...which means that a walk-on named JimBryant will be in charge of the U Mass offense forat least the first several games of the year. Andthat turns a very rosy offensive picture into avery uncertain...
...which means that a walk-on named Jim Bryant will be in charge of the UMass offense for at least the first several games of the year. And that turns a very rosy offensive picture into a very uncertain...
...spectacle of a Supreme Court Justice taking a bribe in public is shocking. But that is what happened at Georgetown's Trinity Theater when Justice William Rehnquist joined the Washington Savoyards Ltd. for a surprise walk-on during their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. + Appropriately cast as the Solicitor, Rehnquist made his one-night-only appearance during the finale of the first act. Having been persuaded by the heroine to rig a raffle so that she can win the man she loves, Rehnquist stepped forward and, with much judicial flourish, presented a large bowl filled with extra tickets...