Word: amateurness
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...Guys and Dolls once ruled, times are changing. For one thing, the spring high school musical these days is increasingly likely to be, quite literally, High School Musical - the Disney Channel hit that is now one of the most produced high school shows and has had nearly 2,500 amateur productions since September 2006. But while stalwarts like Grease and Bye Bye Birdie still top the schools' most-popular list (Little Shop of Horrors was actually No. 1 for 2007), a growing number of high schools are turning to more adventurous fare for their theatrical rite of spring: big, adult...
...SHARKS 1 in 280 million Odds of being killed by a shark. About six people die in shark attacks annually; this year's count includes amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, who was attacked by a great white near San Diego on April 25 26 million Number of sharks killed annually by humans...
...million Odds of being killed by a shark. About six people die in shark attacks annually; this year's count includes amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, who was attacked by a great white near San Diego on April...
This thought was not entirely revelatory. My friends had long been subjected to lengthy descriptions of the restaurants I would some day open. They had heard the amateur, now discarded plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant with a twist, where mac and cheese or duck l’orange would be served up in crisp wonton wrappers or savory shumai shells (titled, for its brief reign in theoretical existence, “Dim Sumthing Else”). A few lucky listeners had even become privy...
...station vans, their satellite transmitters hoisted like mechanical battle flags. Out of the assorted automobiles poured reporters and burly camera guys, the latter adept at shouldering aside the former for best position at a press conference. At this particular press conference, we were to hear from the family of amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, whose legs were chewed apart by a shark as he was swimming in the Pacific on Friday morning, and who died from blood loss a few minutes later, probably before his swimming companions could pull his snow-white body to shore. His family had agreed...