Word: light
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...assistant deans of freshmen do seem to try to give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
...breached by the other. For the Vice President--who had been told that this "hockey crease," as it was described to his amusement, had been requested by the Bush camp--the make-believe security zone was an invitation to rattle and challenge his opponent. Like a boy playing red light--green light, Gore encroached. "I thought he was going to hit George," Barbara Bush said the next morning. The ploy, along with Gore's purposeful stride around the stage, was about more than intimidation; it was meant to show that Gore, who constantly vows to "fight" for average Americans...
...impaled on Frank Rich's pen during his 1980-93 run as "the Butcher of Broadway" (a.k.a. the drama critic for the New York Times), there are, in his new memoir, a couple of bombshells: Rich has a heart, and that heart loves the theater passionately and needily. Ghost Light (Random House; 311 pages; $24.95) is really two memoirs. The first is about--surprise!--a troubled childhood. The second is a tender reminiscence of the American theater of the '50s and '60s. Where Ghost Light often excels is where the two meet: the critic's evolving personal relationship with...
There Rich glimpsed a life beyond his fractious home. Sneaking into a lonely, darkened Broadway theater, he saw the crew strike the set, leaving behind a naked light bulb on a tall pole--a "ghost light," meant to ward off spirits. That image--the idea of the theater as a welcoming place where the light never goes out--sparked in him "the fantasy that I might extract some glittering consolation prize for being different and alone." Rich became a theater geek nonpareil, an awkward Jewish kid who, making his Bar Mitzvah, recognized the designer of the temple's ark from...
...craft. At The Music Man, Rich empathizes with the disillusioned, fatherless boy Winthrop: "'Hurry up and leave!' he yelled at the Music Man," he writes, "his sobs now more hurt than sad--another sound I recognized. He wanted the Music Man to stay and be his father." Ghost Light ends as Rich leaves home for college, but in this eloquent book, we already see him becoming a critic and art lover in the truest, deepest sense. In the process, he teaches us that you can't be a good butcher without loving the cooking...