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...teddy bears. The marketing can get desperate: a Denver furniture company advertises its mattresses with a picture of "Mike Ziegler, Area Fire Fighter" and the tag line "This is Mike. He can't afford a bad night's sleep." Maureen Wilkinson, owner of Acorn Travel in River Forest, Ill., sharpened her sales pitch. "Are you uncomfortable leaving your family behind?" asked the ad. "Take them with you! Family reunions are great fun on an Alaskan Cruise...
...just the decision about where to go to school that weighs on families; it is simply harder to send children out into an uncertain world, whether for the traditional eighth-grade school trip to Washington, a spring-vacation trip south or a summer abroad. The Teitelmans of Oak Park, Ill., have an idea what they will be talking about around the table next week: What will son Matt, 15, do for his summer vacation? Matt has been saving since he was a little kid for a summer trip to Israel. His sister Joan, 18, who went there last summer, says...
Unfortunately, ill-advised screen usage and poor sightlines are not all that plague this production. Awkward staging also sinks a number of scenes, including all those in which guns figured prominently. Every scene that features a character holding a gun and threatening another is unbelievable and loses its dramatic build, both because of the way the actors hold their weapons and the way they react to the situations. And among the more curiously flawed scenes is the second act opener, “Bui Doi,” which occasionally feels like a Sally Struthers commercial and at other times...
...also worked extensively with Fountain House, a New York chairty that provides counseling, employment and housing for the mentally ill...
Additionally, Rodin became too ill to compete after only two races on Sunday. However, earlier, she and Philbrick had displayed their promise by placing second in their first two races...