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...brought Radcliffe's season record to 4-1-3. The team celebrated last night at a wind-up banquet in Currier House...
...this personification of the outside power is lost in the next play, Beckett's "Act without Words II." The outside power has become a snout-nosed prod ("the Goad") that rattles on stage to awake first Klein, then Volpe, who like wind-up tops proceed to go through their daily routine. Klein and Volpe again are a nice contrast: Klein prays to the ceiling and pops a pill before he can slump out of his sack; Volpe is already speeding: he shadow-boxes even while he eats his morning carrot...
...bristling mustache above a bone-stiff upper lip. The wind-up doll gestures. The suave delivery of platitudes in a deep and resonant voice. Those trademarks of Thomas Edmund Dewey came to symbolize a full decade of Republican Party frustration in the presidential politics of the 1940s. That is unfortunate, since Dewey was the prototype of all crusading young gangbusters in his 30s, a crisply efficient three-term Governor of New York in his 40s, and a premature but valued elder statesman of his party as early as his 50s. Nevertheless, he will be remembered chiefly...
These animal pantomimes and the sensory training in the earlier Tribal Players skits eventually lead up to full improvisations. A group enacted wind-up toys who ran low on energy and shouted to be wound up again. Another group played race cars, an announcer ran around balls on an imaginary pool table, and a group improvised on the theme of being lost in the woods. "Children are the center of our curriculum," said Anne McNamara. "Other thins revolve around them. We can completely justify 'How Can I Tell You" in our curriculum. It's a beginning and a middle...
...random walk: a Parisian who signs himself Sibaja has sculpted two prizefighters out of red ice who bleed slowly into buckets under their boxing ring while a tape recorder plays crowd screams. They take a week to die. Minimal sculpture everywhere, reaching even into the Portuguese delegation. Pushbutton and wind-up sculptures break down in a matter of hours. Slides flicker against every flat surface until the bulbs fuse. Enough visual noise is, in point of fact, white light...