Word: carpetbagging
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Where did the sassy, savvy show tunes of yesteryear go? Has the all-American genre been smothered in middlebrow blandness by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his carpetbag clones? Way Back to Paradise (Nonesuch/Atlantic), the first solo album from three-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, points to smarter times ahead for the Great White Way. It contains 14 songs by five young composers who specialize in musical theater, none of which sound even remotely like Memory. All are highly listenable; a few, downright remarkable...
...ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...
...lady hiding her face behind a large black carpetbag? It was none other than Katharine Hepburn, 60, playing hooky from her star role in Coco to catch her good friend Lauren Bacall, 45, in Applause-and visibly annoyed when Manhattan's press photographers spoiled her getaway act. When one especially persistent reporter tracked her quarry all the way home, she got more than a picture. "Get away from me, you little brat," hissed Katie, "or I'll punch you in the face...
...suitcase full of promotional handbills and a bottle of lubricating oil, he sold $57,500 worth of stock in a nonexistent oil well. The shareholders finally caught on, and Mann was brought to trial; but the judge dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. Encouraged, Mann packed his carpetbag in 1866 and moved on to Mobile as Federal Assessor of Internal Revenue. In 1872 he patented a design for a railroad sleeping car (consisting of a series of stateroomlike compartments) and sailed for Europe. There he leased his cars to rail lines in half a dozen countries. Eleven years later...
...Mayor Ivan Allen, talked glowingly about N.F.L. expansion to Atlanta by the fall of 1966. And baseball's Milwaukee Braves made a hopeful lunge. Already destined to play in Atlanta next year, the Braves offered Milwaukee $500,000 to drop a court injunction and let them carpetbag south to Atlanta's new $18 million stadium, after next month's All-Star Game...