Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ortolans and Failure. For the next 2½ years it was girls, flasks and sis-boom-bah. But the public image concealed an all-night reader who forged through Flaubert, Rimbaud, Joyce, Proust, Eliot, Pound, Cummings, Stein, Hemingway. In the fall of 1926, with a wad in his wallet and a life of leisure in view, he changed his name to Nathanael West and sailed off to Paris to join the Lost Generation. It was going to be ortolans all the way. But that winter the family fortune showed signs of imminent collapse. Early in 1927, West found himself working...
...Karl D'Challa Deirup seemed at first just a bit too mature as the callow youth, Nanki-Poo, but his first song ( A wandering minstrel I/a thing of shreds and patches... ) established Nanki-Poo as a totally different character from that of the traditional interpretations. Alan Abrams, as Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, was marvelous as the proud but corrupt political hack. But the undisputed star of the show was Josh Rubins, as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Following the opulent train of reverent courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried...
...hardware store. Meanwhile, officials of the city's buildings department sent Bak a letter, which he never got demanding that he make repairs. A process server could not find Bak to notify him of a court hearing for a demolition order because the summons was misaddressed to "Edward Bah" at 1711 West Division. Eventually, inspectors found Bak's building and mailed him a letter saying that it was in good shape, but by the time the letter went out the buildings department had hired wreckers to tear down the structure, and this time they got the address right...