Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, Me and My Girl treats its material with respect: there is no modernization of the book or score, no overlay of contemporary cynicism, no relevance of any sort, just millionaires singing and dancing. The result is a jubilant romp that has spectators cheering and leaping like shortstops to catch balloons dropped from the ceiling at the finale...
...against local drug producers without stronger indications that the U.S. will do something to stem the burgeoning demand of its drug users. The Administration intends as well to provide military support, like the troops and helicopters sent to Bolivia last month. "Operation Blast Furnace" was ridiculed for failing to catch any drug producers, but last week U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Edward Rowell claimed that the raids achieved a "dramatic impact" on Bolivian cocaine production by shutting down six major labs with a combined production capacity of five tons a week...
Although Rosenthal's tempos tend toward the inflexible, sometimes leaving sluggish singers to catch up as best they can, he never swamps them in Wagnerian sound. Clean and elegant, Rosenthal's interpretation reflects an approach one does not usually associate with Wagner. "Some people will be surprised," he says, "but the Ring is lots of fun." In a production that compels rethinking Wagner's monument, the casting of Rosenthal is the most daring element...
...this humid summer evening, in spite of the cheers and waves, the crowd didn't know Grechko from any of the other people he was with. After all, this wasn't Red Square but Red Wing, Minn., and most of the well-wishers who surged forward to catch a glimpse of this space traveler had never before seen a "Russian" in the flesh...
...doctor or a professor is an investment banker or a lawyer, and as everyone who read The New York Times Magazine at Lucy Vincent Beach last Sunday knows, lawyers are really the same thing as investment bankers. If you want to see them in person, catch PBA's 7:10 a.m. flight from Edgartown to Boston any Monday morning and you'll see them being driven to the airport by their madras-clad sons or Lilly Pulitzer-clad wives. If you merely want proof of their existence, venture into the most obscure newspaper shop on the Vineyard...