Word: thesaurus
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This Broadway tribute to the lyricist of A Chorus Line, who never had another hit and died of cancer in 1988, might seem a precious bit of Broadway navel gazing. Yet it is surprisingly fresh and engaging. Kleban's little-heard songs are witty and original--Sondheim without the thesaurus. And the creators (chiefly director and star Lonny Price) temper their affection with candor and insight into an artist more familiar with frustration than fame...
...Mark Burnett and long-time adventure writer Martin Dugard, fails miserably to recapture the conflicts, competition and connivances that made the television series irresistible. Hastily written while Burnett was still on the island, it reads more like the overdramatic diary of a junior high school girl armed with a thesaurus and without any discretion on when to use it. At times, the hyperbole becomes downright nauseating: "Gretchen was crestfallen. All that hard work...that marksmanship...why, she could almost feel the red ripeness of the watermelon dribbling down her chin... Sometimes island living could be so unfair." Similar silly prose...
...climate. He didn't have the talent to be the baseball-team captain, so he became commissioner of stickball, a rebel sport that upended Andover's jock culture and gave everyone a chance, however hopeless their natural gifts. He tried at first to impress his teachers, combing through the thesaurus for a synonym for tears to use in an English essay he was writing about his sister's death. But his account of lacerates streaming down his cheeks earned him a zero so emphatic that "it left an impression visible all the way through to the back of the blue...
...turned some ears obviously, since I've been getting requests to play it in my DJ sets. How much do I hate it and its basic Eurotrance-by-numbers beat? How many words for "cheese" are there? Bleu cheese, cheddar, Brie, Camembert, Parmesan. And I haven't opened my thesaurus...
...difficult to know how to respond to the curious mlange of misrepresentation, inaccuracy and illogic that characterized "Foolishness on the Right" (Editorial, Dec. 7). The Crimson's thesaurus must have received quite a workout: in the space of a few paragraphs, the sponsors of last week's Conservative Coming Out Dinner are accused of "foolishness," "immaturity," "boorishness," "stupidity" and an "abhorrent disregard for the feelings of other students." Amid the vitriol, a few points warrant response...