Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kanawa as an all-American Nellie Forbush was a greater suspension of disbelief than many listeners were willing to make. Yet My Fair Lady was solid and assured, even if Jeremy Irons did not erase the memory of Rex Harrison as | Henry Higgins. And Carousel, with songstress Barbara Cook and opera bass Samuel Ramey as the ill-fated lovers, was thrilling...
Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
...Cook used ASL and mime in the reading while Lerner interpreted it verbally and added sound effects...
...write everything together," said Cook through Lerner, "but [my performance] is not word for word. There's a lot of addition. Also, we judge the audience--if they're really conservative, we might not do all of our stuff...
...Cook's and Lerner's performance included poems ranging in subject from the streets of San Francisco to the martial arts and is part of a tour sponsored by the Boston Arts Lottery...