Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mike personality, mixes country lawyer with sideshow barker, tent evangelist with Spike Jones rhythm section. In the space of a single sentence, he will rattle newspapers into the microphone, impersonate Benjamin Hooks (Does the N.A.A.C.P. director really sound like Amos 'n' Andy's Kingfish?) and break into an impromptu chorus of Blue Moon. When Limbaugh gets revved up, he comes on like John Madden with a grudge...
Producers have always dreamed of long runs, but the semieternal run is a phenomenon of recent years. The four most enduring Broadway shows -- A Chorus Line (6,137 performances), the revival of Oh! Calcutta! (5,959), Cats (3,709 through last week) and 42nd Street (3,486) -- attained all or most of their runs during the '80s. If Mackintosh's projections prove right (and others in the industry believe they will), Les Miz and Phantom will outstrip Hello, Dolly! and My Fair Lady for the ninth and 10th spots among all-time long- runners...
...Macintosh with an evangelistic zeal, exhorting an auditorium packed with dealers, customers and employees, "IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control, Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry . . .? Was George Orwell right?" As the frenzied crowd shouted a chorus of "No!," Jobs cued a now notorious TV commercial known as "1984," which was to run only once, during the Super Bowl. The ad showed workers staring zombie-like at a Big Brother on a viewing screen, which a heroic female athlete smashed with a sledgehammer...
...levy has been labeled the Robin Hood tax by one economist because it helps transfer money from the rich to the poor. Not everyone sees it that way, however. A rare chorus of blue-chip retailers and blue-collar workers denounces it as a disaster tax. At issue is the six-month-old "luxury tax" that Congress adopted last year as part of a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan. The new 10% excise tax was tacked onto such goods as pleasure boats, private airplanes, jewelry and fur. While the tax bite is not particularly severe -- a minuscule $25 million is expected...
...into a race riot, Jungle Fever is really two movies in one: the first hour an essay on various volatile issues, the second a dramatization of how these issues inform and ruin ordinary lives. Lee tries hard to spread the intensity, and the ignorance, judiciously. He lets a geek chorus of Italian- American guys in Bensonhurst blame black men for everything from Central Park rapes to the mongrelization of jockdom. "They took our sports," one fellow grouses, "baseball, football, basketball, boxing. What do we got left? Hockey...