Word: archly
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...Cheeseburger Song,” Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07 sang about his love for a McDonald’s girl, the “angel in the polyester uniform” and the members of the Dins formed a McDonald’s arch with their bodies. For the show’s finale, the Dins laughed at themselves by performing the “Copa Cabana,” during which the tallest member, dressed in drag, complete with a blonde wig, mamboed about the stage with the lead singer. But, somehow, it was perfect...
...your President Boosh?" asks tribesman Tariq Angar as he drags over a white-bearded elder with a mean squint. Lose the beard and, sure enough, he did look like Dubya around the pale eyes. Angar laughed, but the elder scowled; he wasn't pleased at being likened to the arch-infidel...
Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...road to stardom segues into a struggle to integrate the show when she makes friends with some of her talented black classmates. The musical concludes with the integration of “The Corny Collins Show” and Tracy’s victorious popularity-contest win over arrogant arch-nemesis Amber Von Tussle. While the musical stays afloat with comedic one-liners and sky-scraping coiffures, it’s weighed down by attempting to touch on the more serious subject of southern segregation. While Tracy’s interactions with black classmate Seaweed J. Stubs are filled with...
...office in downtown L.A., he glimpsed a worker 110 ft. above the ground, doing construction on the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The sight inspired Garcetti--a longtime amateur photographer--to rush home and grab his cameras. "When I first saw that ironworker crawling up on that high arch beam, a rainbow shined down and showed me a use for my talents," he says, sounding more like a dreamy artist than a hardened attorney making opening arguments. "An opportunity fell from...