Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Celebrating its upcoming 30th season, Sesame Street went on the road this year. "Sesame Street Unpaved," a college tour, brought members of the cast and crew to Harvard's Graduate School of Education (GSE) in a sort of homecoming this...
...black tap-dancing--exploded onto Broadway in 1996, it grabbed four Tony awards and brought crowds of all colors to the theater. Two years later, the show is on its first national tour, and is currently experiencing its first-ever performance run in Boston. Although many of the cast members were plucked straight from the Broadway version, one cannot help but wonder if a tour production of Noise/Funk will live up to the reputation that the original has created. Can such a physically and emotionally taxing show perform day after day, in city after city, and still pulse with...
...fingers towards the taxis that refuse to give them rides at the end of "Taxi" win laugher and cheers from the audience, but at a cost of crassness. Also, in the very last number--a reprise of the opening song "Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk"--the cast stops tap-dancing at moments to clumsily imitate ballet as Silcott reads from a book in a faux British accent. The actions were mildly humorous, but seemed out-of-place--for a production that was supposed to be explaining the history of one art, ending by making fun of another...
McCurry did say, however, that the president"would not want to cast aspersions on thereligious beliefs of anybody...
...make up for that, a group of writers a few years later published the book Woman in the Year 2000. The contributions were cast in the form of fantasy and fiction but largely reflected the familiar feminist gospel. One story involved a girl born at midnight in the year 2000, appropriately named Millenny. When she goes to school, she finds that girls are no longer discouraged from fighting with one another and that boys are no longer looked down on when they weep. On television, violence and machismo have been banned. Safe pharmaceutical contraceptives are available free at banks...