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...light at a slightly different angle, an old trick of slang. The ten-year-old will pronounce something "excellent" in the brisk, earnest manner of an Army colonel who has just inspected his regiment. (Primo means the same thing.) The movie E. T. has contributed penis breath, an aggressively weird phrase in perfect harmony with the aggressively weird psyche of the eight-year-old. In Minnesota, they say, for weird. Bogus is an ordinary, though slightly out-of-the-way word that has been recommissioned as youth slang that means fraudulent or simply second-rate or silly. Bogus...
...read the magazine, the more people will want to submit things," says Longobardi it can become a tool of education that's the pinnacle-- a forum for thought, something that people will read and say 'that's what people are thinking about art and literature!'" After pauses for breath he continues. "Then, the faculty will read it avidly," he says. "And then suddenly it will be the place where if you're writing something, that's where you'll want...
...enough, via the former's casual phone call; the plaintive 30-years' teacher unable to cope with modernity (Jeannie Affelder) announces a supermarket checkers' number by nostalgically recalling a favorite student ("She works down at the Star Market now.") Then again, a few juxtapositions make a viewer catch his breath. After Nina Bernstein's lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well, I didn't want to be just a housewife--comes like a slap in the face. Each speech and song brings a new twist--a corporate executive is numbered among...
...playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, took Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental Nicholas Nickleby. And at age 34, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved the unprecedented feat of having three musicals playing simultaneously in London (Evita, Cats and Song & Dance) and New York (Evita, Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
...they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where they peek in on a couple of querulous Wright brothers and help get them flying. The youngster, of course knows all about history, while the oft-addled time traveler ("Smokin' bats-breath! This isn't 1492!") makes up in grit what he lacks in gray matter...