Word: chimneysweeps
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...fractured London household, with pompous father George Banks (Daniel Jenkins), mother Winifred (perennial Broadway luminary Rebecca Luker) and two rambunctious children, Jane and Michael (played by three pairs of kids); the hiring of the uncanny nanny Mary Poppins (Ashley Brown); the narration by Mary's friend, Bert the chimneysweep (Gavin Lee); the rooftop dance of Bert and his proletarian pals; and most of Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman's hit score. Eight of the Shermans' 14 songs (including "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "A Spoonful of Sugar," and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") have been retained; George Stiles and Anthony Drewe expanded some...
Tying this together was lead guitarist Brad Shepherd, who managed to out-Hoodoo his fellow Gurus by sporting large circular earrings, a necklace of some unidentifiable carnivore's teeth and, most evocative of all, a cockney chimneysweep's top hat that could have been stolen from Charles Nelson Riley's Hoodoo himself. Shepherd dominated the stage, bounding forth to let the kids up front tousle his hair and producing a series of guitar sounds clever enough to overcome many of the Gurus dumber lyrics...
...school that Hazan conducts each year from May to November in Bologna, Italy's gastronomical heartland. Most are Belle Pomme regulars, eager to branch out into the mysteries of pasta, prosciutto, parmigiana, pesce and polio, not to mention savoring Marcella's gelato spazza camino (Scotch-laced vanilla ice cream chimneysweep style, so called because it is topped with finely ground espresso coffee "soot...
...gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...
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