Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Mark Haverland certainly must have been worried during the contest's midway interlude. Before the opening tip-off, he had said he expected an easy game against what he felt to be a weak squad from Norton. Yet at half-time the teams were deadlocked...
...back up his leads, director Andy Cadiff has assembled a cast remarkably free of weak spots. Toby Webb as Baker, the editor who initially rejects Ruth's work, sings in a rich baritone, while P.D. Seltzer manages to wring more than a few laughs from his role as the weasely landlord of Christopher Street. Best of all is Paul Jackel's portrayal of Wreck, the football star from Trenton Tech. Highly energetic, Jackel exhibits superb comic timing and bounces around the stage with the ease...
...have conducted a random, although modest, survey of Harvard-Radcliffe students and discovered just one type of person who can tell a story, albeit weak, about Central Square. This type turned 18 before December of 1972--when the military started relying entirely on volunteers to flesh out its ranks--and he had to amble on down to the fringes of Central Square to register for the draft. He remembers City Hall, where the draft cards were issued, as a tabular and turreted brick fortress with rows of arched windows through which he got a sidewise view of neon wriggles...
...Semler, does not see the addition of freshmen to his squad as the answer to all his problems. Cornell and Harvard are still considered to be the favorites. After all, they too have the option of skating freshmen. "The teams that are strong continue to be strong and the weak ones continue to be weak." Lufkin, winless so far this season, sighed...
...weak Miss Lonelyhearts tilts the balance of the play in Shrike's favor, and Lorenzo Mariani as the sharp-talking features editor makes the most of it. Poor Miss Lonelyhearts never really stands a chance. Mariani's magnificent presence and resonant voice dominate the stage, as he enunciates West's vision in a way that mixes cynicism with sense. Especially fine is Mariani's handling of Shrike's monologue, in which he relentlessly demonstrates to a bed-ridden Miss Lonelyhearts the futility of traditional means of escape...