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...Most students, especially men, refuse to dance before downing a beer. After that beer, one might hope for good company. But inevitably, someone broaches the topic of schoolwork, likely to complain about how many pages there are to write the next morning for one class or another. Papers as cocktail talk? Professors would be pleased, but there are no TFs around to award brownie points. The whole thing makes for lousy parties...
...course, they don't call it the "fabulous invalid" for nothing, and there's a half-empty part to Broadway's current cocktail. Some of the Old Guard fear that the rich corporate players are making it harder for independent producers and smaller musicals (not to mention straight plays--remember them?) to compete. "The danger with $20 million musicals," says veteran producer Emanuel Azenberg, "is that you have to run for 28 years, have five companies around the world and play to the lowest common denominator." Azenberg's Side Show was one of two decent little musicals (the other...
...family, Julie is soon joined by Claire who, motivated by Julie's assertiveness, abandons her husband and begins searching for a job. The two begin to connect with each other in their conversations and emotional outbursts and come to respect each other, transcending the common homemaker small talk and cocktail party friendship...
...movie version of Segal's book. When Jones won an Oscar in 1994 for The Fugitive, Gore tried to phone congratulations to him backstage, "but somebody kept hanging up on me," Gore said. "It was, 'Sure you're Al Gore'--click." Then he moved on, grabbing a cocktail napkin to diagram a new system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through it all, he never let anything slip or allowed the conversation to turn back to the job. When he praised a pbs documentary on Harry Truman, a reporter observed that as Vice President, Truman rarely saw F.D.R. Gore changed...
...Concerned about biological warfare in the weeks and months preceding the Gulf War, the Defense Department pumped soldiers full of vaccines designed to protect against everything from botulinum toxin to anthrax ? a chemical cocktail that some charge caused illnesses after...