Word: cincinnati
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...title is an understatement. This partly improvised sitcom focuses on 16 members of an extended Cincinnati, Ohio, clan: siblings, stepsiblings, grandparents, married parents and single parents. The family is set abuzz in the pilot when Stepgrandpa Wendal (Max Gail) announces that he's leaving Grandma Colleen (Dee Wallace)--and then doesn't. The material is typical family-comedy stuff--money fights, bedroom troubles, sibling rivalries--but the show's conversational improv rhythms and realistic, documentary style make Sons and Daughters worth adopting...
...congressional district that were funded by his political action committee, his campaign committee or private groups, all of which receive much of their funds from lobbyists. The group says Boehner takes more trips outside his district, often to play golf, than he does to see his constituents in the Cincinnati area. Boehner's office disputes the analysis, saying the Majority Leader often makes the 9-hour drive back to his district, so just counting his flights is misleading...
...swinging with a former confidence.Following the summer, he was tempted to join classmates Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff in signing professional contracts and ending his time in Cambridge prematurely. He engaged in brief negotiations with the Oakland A’s, San Diego Padres, and Cincinnati Reds before ultimately returning to O’Donnell Field for one last go-round.“Honestly, my swing feels really good,” Salsgiver says. “And I have a heightened sense of purpose. It’s been three years of mediocre seasons?...
...troupes, infusing them with a new warmth, sensuality and flair--what in Spanish is called chispa, or spark. There have been individual Hispanic stars before, like the great mid-century ballerinas Alicia Alonso of Cuba and Lupe Serrano of Chile. But now rosters from San Francisco to Houston to Cincinnati are studded with Latin names. Roughly half the principal dancers in the Boston and Miami City ballets are Latins. American Ballet Theatre (A.B.T.) features so many that one of its principals says it "should be called Latin Ballet Theatre." Lynn Garafola, a dance historian at Barnard College, summed...
...Bush remains a big draw for the hard-core Republican faithful, but it was hard not to notice the absence of Ohio Senator Mike DeWine when the President arrived at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport last week to raise $1.1 million for DeWine at a private event in the tony Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill. (DeWine's probable Senate opponent observed that "DeWine doesn't want to be seen with President Bush in public.") One of the first to denounce the ports deal was Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum, a Senator whose re-election battle--already the toughest in the country--will...