Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. Published in hard cover a year ago, it immediately became a surprise best seller. The paperback edition (Vintage; $10) is now firmly entrenched on the best-seller list. Kaysen has received hundreds of letters from readers who have also been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and on her just completed tour of 16 cities to promote the paperback, dozens of people whispered their own stories of mental illness to her. To many...
That did not happen here. Outside Soldier Field, the business of America, which is business, was not suspended. Too bad for America, I say. I mean, I was in Soldier Field, aiming to learn something by and by. Next week, the bell tolls in California...
...rest of us, however, will be too busy having a high-energy good time to question director-choreographer-adapter David Bell's inspired tinkering (with hip musical help from Rob Bowman). Even for G&S fans, this is a lot better than watching D'Oyly Carte traditionalists wheezing their own dust...
Nanki-Poo but does not cut loose vocally as he did in Into the Woods, this is an amazing turnaround for Bell and Bowman, who mounted Broadway's truly brainless if brief musical flop, the gender-swapping castle fantasy A Change in the Heir, in 1990. Where that air was stale, this is irrepressibly fresh and fizzy...
Here and there, unions are even winning some battles. A Teamsters strike in April forced major trucking companies to stop using part-time, nonunion drivers. The same month, the Communication Workers of America got Nynex, one of the biggest of the new Baby Bell telephone companies, to reverse plans to lay off 22,000 workers. Under a new contract, Nynex will not lay off anybody over the next four years; it will try instead to induce workers to retire early by offering them six years of extra pension benefits...