Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...character of the Sorceress, who takes on the role which the gods held in the classical story of Virgil's Aeneid. This part, an alto role traditionally assigned to female singers, is performed by a male student, Christopher Thorpe '98, who someone must have decided was a counter-tenor of some sort. However, all of his lines sounded as if they were sung in a bad falsetto. The odd effect was emphasized by a very strange makeup job which made Thorpe's Sorcerer seem not like something supernatural or frightening but merely a werewolfish extra from a very bad horror...
...free stuff clutters up your room, however. Free food samples always catch my eye. My first stop in a grocery store is the bread counter, where they're likely to be giving out morsels of cheddar cheese dill bread or sesame semolina. Stores known to provide free samples are more likely to get my business. At Fresh Fields, a yuppie-style grocery store in Washington owned by Boston's Bread and Circus chain, the savvy customer can eat practically an entire lunch just by grazing from the sample baskets. Tacky? I guess so. Yummy...
...awaits NBC?s counter offer, the issue for Geraldo isn?t money; it?s status: Fox is offering him an anchor role on a nightly news program, a temptation which NBC has thus far resisted. Whatever the outcome, Zoglin believes Geraldo?s ultimatum reflects a classic American tale: ?This is a guy who couldn?t get a network job ten years ago, so it?s a pretty dramatic comeback story.? Who said Kato Kaelin is the only one who owes his career...
...does it work? Most Western-trained physicians remain skeptical. Explanations that acupuncture restores the balance of yin and yang by tinkering at critical points along life-force meridians sound to scientists suspiciously like quackery. Advocates counter that their claims are supported by hundreds of research studies--as well as a successful track record that extends back 2,500 years...
...premise sounds surely irritating, but the final product betrays the trite-sounding plot line. Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) is a high school actor whose ambitions landed him smack dab behind the counter of his local Blockbuster video store. His brother (Peter Gallagher of sex, lies and videotape fame), on the other hand, is a smooth talking well-dressed I-banker in London. Wallace decides to drop in on his brother for his birthday (thankfully Gallagher saves us a reprise of his recent flop To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday). The brother, James, freaks, being on the cusp of a multimillion...