Word: chicago
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...less about Ally McBeal's clients--however intriguing older women who fall in love with 18-year olds and guys who have a fetish for women's feet are--than for our favorite legal professional. We are, indeed, more cynically meta today than we have been in decades. Though Chicago the Musical had to take a second seat to the warm and fuzzy Oklahoma when it debuted on Broadway in the mid-1970s, the show-that-hams-it-up-because-it's-a-show won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and has been enjoying more...
Like many little boys in the tricycle years, Mike Terry of Evanston, Ill., loved things that go vroom. Cars in particular. But as he grew older, his fascination didn't fade; it just shifted into higher gear. At age 9, he had a transcendent experience: the Chicago Auto Show, 10 hours of "heaven on earth." From that day on, recalled Mike, now 13, in a seventh-grade paper, "the auto show has been named a 'religious holiday' in the Terry family...
Huan Song arrived in a Chicago suburb two years ago unable to speak much English, but possessed of as much grit as a 14-year-old can muster. The child of divorced middle-class parents in China, she had been sent by her father to live with an aunt and uncle. "I could have had a comfortable life in China, but my father thought I'd have a better future and a more exciting life in the U.S. He made a great sacrifice to let me come here to have a good future...
Four million dolls and 48 million books have been sold to date, exclusively through catalogs. In November the company will open its first retail outlet, American Girl Place, in downtown Chicago. It will feature a one-hour musical bringing the six characters to life (tickets: $25 each...
...Still, the Mark McGwire of Series movies is John Sayles' story of the Chicago Black Sox, "Eight Men Out" (1988). The tale of how eight Chicago White Sox players threw the 1919 World Series has everything -- high rollers, legendary ballplayers and a fall from grace that gave Bernard Malamud the inspiration for "The Natural." It's a homer, Simpson...