Word: cousin
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Clown Around Town, the BAC’s 2000-2001 season production, stars Orville (Tom Dougherty) as the Country Clown arriving in NYC to visit his cousin, Gordoon (Jeff Gordon), the City Clown. The two go on a tour of the city’s sites, encountering acrobats, magicians, jugglers, trapeze artists and animals along...
DIED. JOHN OAKES, 87, crusading editorial-page writer and editor of the New York Times, whose passionate defense of human rights and the environment and early opposition to the war in Vietnam led to his dismissal as editor of the editorial page by his cousin the publisher but helped to establish the Times's liberal voice; on April 5, following a stroke last month; in Manhattan...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...
...except by her affectionate yet dispassionate descriptions of them. There are Bella and Izzy as young communists in love, her father saving her mother from drowning, choosing her over her sister--a revelation to their daughter, who had been worried that her parents weren't romantic enough. There's cousin Meyer, who fled to America to escape the Cossacks, lost his entire family when the Nazis occupied his hometown in Ukraine, raised another family in the U.S. but was so saddened by America's role in Vietnam that he killed himself at 87. And there's Aunt Lily, the clan...
...benefit concert, Funk Fever, kicked off the night's three consecutive hours of shows. Those who endured the late start witnessed a fabulous evening of events. DPH Funk Machine played music as eclectic as its name, mixing the sounds of the saxophones of Rob Lee '03 and Joseph Cousin '02, the keyboard of Alex Gordon '04, the drums of Vahid Hakimzadeh '04, the electric guitar of David Plunkett '04, the bass guitar of Previn Warren's '04 and the electric violin of Gabriel Jostrom...