Word: box
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...mind?"). But Clark's rendition makes it clear Sally is so desperate and deluded, she is near madness; she is losing her mind. Clark lifted this Follies into the stratosphere of indelible Broadway productions. I can testify to that: after catching a Saturday matinee I marched directly to the box office and bought two tickets for the evening show. Rapture struck twice...
...amusing, and give the stars a chance to mewl and mug becomingly; but, from the same book (The Greatest Revue Sketches) that Viertel & Co. dipped into, I'd have chosen George S. Kaufman's brief, devastating "If Men Played Cards As Women Do" from Berlin's Third Music Box Revue of 1923. It has a quartet of burly gents punctuating a game of poker by gossiping cattily about clothes, makeup and rivals, and was put on film in the 40s revue Star Spangled Rhythm, with Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland and Lynne Overman as the feminine...
...clients (whatever that means) by The Wall Street Journal—has re-inked a contract with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) to provide summer storage on campus. Their slick website promises three Justin Timberlake and Andy Sandberg-like simple steps—step one: put your junk in a box; step two: let them pick up the box; step three: they’ll deliver the box (and that’s the way you do it!). Whether this is an appealing marketing strategy or another massive boondoggle seems ambiguous. Yet last November, over twenty Kirkland residents?...
...smaller portions, it turned out, were plenty of food. But it's going to be hard to order them. Just as it's hard not to pay 10 more cents to go up a size for a Big Gulp. We live in a Costco big-box world, and to get me to think and eat small, you have to make your smaller offerings Prius cool. Instead of cutting the prices a few bucks, these places need to include a free beer...
...muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World War II. "The inspiration and expiration that presses the vocal folds, the movement of air from the trachea, the vibration of the voice box, the issuing-unthinking, automatic-of air released into the mouth and fashioned by the tongue and the lips, emerging then as socially efficient speech...