Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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From the moment that A Chorus Line debuted in April 1975, it caused, in the words of a song in its score, one singular sensation. It swept nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. More impressive still, as the years rolled on, it kept packing in crowds until, this past New Year's Eve, the musical celebrated its 6,000th performance, a milestone not reached by any other Broadway offering in history...
...yellow-bellied robin is always the first bird to wake in the mornings in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. Its singular call is soon echoed by a chorus of others--the screech of cat birds, the gunfire of Macleay's honeyeater and sometimes the eerie laugh of the kookaburra...
...disposal an arsenal he could not call upon at home: the ample resources of a defendant in an American courtroom. The general's lawyers raised the standard defense objections about pretrial publicity and inadmissible evidence. Both objections have been given a fresh twist by Noriega's singular status as a de facto head of state tracked down by an invading army. The biggest question, however, is more a matter of politics than of legal procedure. With Noriega in court, will Bush also be on trial...
Although Any Woman's Blues employs an interesting technique for giving the author multiple voices and questioning the existence of a singular "I," Jong is all together too self-conscious at times...