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Still a score featuring music by Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman provides the film's rare bright spots, but even these are bungled. Many of the musical numbers are staged so strangely that the character, when they begin singing, appear to have taken leave of their senses. Christian Bale, as the film's hero who dreams of escaping to the Southwest, is made to sing "Santa Fe" while ambling through a dusty, too picturesque New York street at night. The staging goes well beyond run-of-the-mill fantasy when it sends him leaping onto a horse and frolicking...
...Bale plays Jack, a happy-go-lucky newsboy who hawks papers for the New York World, part of the sensationalistic "yellow press" of the 1890's. He and his fellow orphans and street kids scrape by on the pennies they make selling papers. Jack teams up with a pair of down-on-their-luck brothers, Davy (David Moscow) and the baby-faced Les (Luke Edwards) and teaches them the tricks of the trade. ("Headlines don't sell papers, newsies sell papers...
...lack of skill. Eden, by Cordia Byers, shows a couple lying in a barn full of hay. But what exactly is the woman leaning on? It's unclear what is supporting her back, though apparently, from the position of her legs, she is leaning on something; perhaps a bale...
Behind all the arguments, the claims and counterclaims, is the river itself, a glistening thread winding through some of the most spectacular and forbidding terrain in North America. Nobody ever toted a barge or lifted a bale on the Colorado; it is not that kind of river. Its gift to its surroundings has been not transportation and commerce but life itself. There is no more urgent task for the West than ensuring that the Colorado survives...
...show the administration that large-scale recycling can work. The most obvious means to show support for the current college-level recycling is to take the time to drop your waste paper in the recycling bin instead of the trash can. Additionally, students can volunteer to help sort and bale the paper...