Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When On the Town opened in 1944, New York, New York really was a helluva town. And Broadway was one fabulous art form. Oklahoma!, cornpone revolutionizer of the musical, was playing nearby, and Carousel was about to open. Kurt Weill, Sigmund Romberg, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen all had new shows. As for the new kids, two of On the Town's creators were 31: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the co-stars who wrote the show. Two were 26: composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins...
...talent. Though the musical is a perpetual invalid, kids keep coming to New York wanting to put the show on right here. Where else? When the music's great, the jokes funny, the women sassy and the moon over Central Park gloriously full, New York is once again a helluva town...
...helluva lot better than being bit by a rattlesnake...
...Hollywood. No one would dare vote against Lauren Bacall, whose smart, glorious career has yielded no prior nominations, and whose dragon-mom character in Mirror would not take kindly to rejection. Bacall has won the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards, and she's sure to give a helluva speech...
What an incredible piece "Two Men, Two Visions" was! I thought the election was just a contest between two political animals and that there wasn't really a helluva lot of difference between them. With your brilliantly conceived and beautifully written article [ELECTION '96, Nov. 4], I learned about everything that was at stake in the contest. At an important moment in American history, I found your report informative, uplifting and inspiring. NORMAN L. MARTIN Los Angeles Via E-mail...