Word: broadway
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...professors agree. The thought of prepping for a lecture like a Broadway show horrifies Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Wei-Ming, who teaches Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community." Wei-Ming says his opposing outlook on the practice of speaking to a large crowd comes from his Chinese upbringing. "In America, a lecture or speech often begins with a joke," he says. "In Asia, normally, if there is a big audience, you begin with an apology. Self-praise is in poor form...
...While heart-shaped pizza may be cute, nothing beats a chickengram. Call Broadway Babies, a Boston company that specializes in singing telegrams, stripteases and belly dancers. Gorillagrams come standard with a guy in a gorilla suit who not only sings and dances but bears balloons, candy and champagne. The classic chickengram is another option. Broadway Babies’ animal line generally runs $105-130. Also available: singing celebrity impersonators. Choose between Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and Pavarotti. These high-end telegrams cost about $200, plus tip. All this assumes, of course, that the gorilla guy can make his housecall sans keycard...
...Broadway Babies...
DIED. SADIE DELANY, 109, pioneer educator and co-author, with her late sister Bessie, of the best seller turned Broadway hit Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years; in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Daughter of a slave, she got her master's degree in education at Columbia and became the first black woman to teach home economics in New York City's public schools. "I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life," she said. "Life is short; it's up to you to make it sweet...
DIED. SUSAN STRASBERG, 60, actress and buddy of Marilyn Monroe's; of cancer; in New York City. The daughter of acting teacher Lee Strasberg, she debuted on Broadway in 1955 as Anne Frank and appeared in two dozen films, including Stage Struck and Picnic...