Word: babe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baltimore is no one's idea of an artistic Mecca -- maybe the last top-tier cultural icon to emerge there was Babe Ruth -- but for 30 seasons it has fostered a nonprofit theater of increasingly venturesome repertoire. Housed in a converted college building amid the rundown brick facades of downtown, Center Stage has debuted Eric Overmyer's On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, a sprightly fantasy about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims...
...courage of a kind. On her new album she explores its isotope: the courage to throw the bum out. On Take It Back, a song that rocks like the house band in a sports bar, she tells off a man with a cheatin' heart: "Tonight laying on the street/ Babe, your bag is packed...
...have to admit, this really is a new thing for me. I've never been in love with a First Lady before. Barbara Bush was too old, Nancy Reagan too mean, Rosalyn Carter too boring, Betty Ford too clinical. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is a babe...
...heart of the baseball season poignantly reminded baseball fans of a painful truth. Unlike pro basketball, Major League Baseball today has no one who holds the national appeal in the way that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley do--or, for that matter, in the way that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and numerous others once...
...live in a society that's obsessed with celebrity. I think all those are within me, quite truly. I've made comic use by taking them to exponential extremes, but I think I hold within myself the basis of most of what you will read in Et Tu, Babe...