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...what Estonian pollster Ainar Voog calls the "Grandma Factor" - older people, who might end up losing out from enlargement themselves, "support entry because they see it will be good for their children and grandchildren." The 80,000 pages of laws and regulations attached to the E.U.'s admission ticket are sweeping away a lot of fond familiar ways. In August, for example, Czechs had to give up their tradition of choosing unwrapped donuts and other pastries with their hands, because of E.U. health regulations. There were pungent protests. Individually these sorts of changes don't amount to much, but collectively...
...backers. The cast has no above-the-title names - the most prominent figure is Harvey Fierstein, the bullfrog-voiced actor who goes into drag to play the heroine's oversize mother, and whose previous Broadway performance (in his 1987 comedy "Safe Sex") lasted all of one week - so ticket sales aren't siphoned into star salaries. And the show is peddling CDs, T shirts and geegaws galore. At Bloomingdale's, in its 59th Street store and other locations, you will find "Hairspray" boutiques festooned with period clothes, some for full-figured gals. In a Village Voice column, Lynn Yeager noted...
...genuine hit that people want to see and, after they've paid the $100 a ticket, don't feel robbed...
...ambivalence, however, is wiped away by a religious experience, and he is no sooner released than he is booking his return ticket. Detained after protesting in Rangoon again in 1999, he is sentenced to 17 years and transferred to a solitary cell. While his family and friends orchestrate a campaign to draw attention to his cause, a motivated Mawdsley makes life hell for prison officials, demanding books, exercise time, a radio, everything but HBO. True, his demands are his chief means of challenging the corrupt regime, but there aren't many works of prison literature that can trigger...
...ticket proceeds in such spaces, like the Agassiz Theater or the Adams House Pool Theater, will go to HTAG, which will pay the show's bills and deposit profits into its own account...