Word: crystallized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...finally over, and the Republicans have firm control of the White House and Congress. The Democrats should now let them have their way, voting for or abstaining on every Republican measure put before them. That way, the choice in the next election will be crystal clear, and the voters will be able to elect the right leaders. With luck, perhaps people will stop taking cues from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly and start using their own brains to study the important issues facing the country...
Swarovski shed its image as the source for animal miniatures by teaming with trendy fashion designers like Alexander McQueen on the runway. Now the century-old crystal company wants to revamp lighting. "The chandelier is this luxurious, celebratory lighting fixture," says Nadja Swarovski, 34, who runs communications for the firm. "We challenged designers to reinvent it for today." Twenty- seven of them accepted the dare, and this month seven of the collection's 17 pieces--including Yves Béhar's Nest, above, a glowing cyclone suspended by strands of crystal, and Matali Crasset's Plexiglas Sky--were displayed...
...show opens with grainy home movies projected on the façade of a suburban brick house. Out walks a grownup version of the kid in the films: Billy Crystal. For the next two hours and 20 minutes, he reminisces about that house where he grew up, learned how to hit a curveball, discovered masturbation, entertained his relatives with off-color jokes stolen from the Catskills and spent 700 Sundays with his father--the approximate number the two had together, he figures, before his dad died of a heart attack at the bowling alley when Billy was just...
...gaudy musicals and pumped-up stage dramas, Crystal's 700 Sundays might seem like a pretty stripped-down piece of theater. But then, you must not go to the theater much. Crystal's autobiographical monologue, which opened last weekend, is the hottest-selling new show of the Broadway season. And while Crystal may be alone on the stage, he's certainly not alone onstage. His is just one of five one-person shows--along with those from Whoopi Goldberg, Mario Cantone, Eve Ensler and Dame Edna--that have opened on Broadway since September...
...point in her show, Dame Edna drags half a dozen audience members onstage and forces them to play roles in a scene from her childhood. Crystal spends his entire show taking his own life very seriously. But that doesn't mean he has reinvented himself as a sad clown. Crystal's show is a scripted extension of his stand-up material, with lampoons of his Jewish relatives--the cranky uncles, the chain-smoking aunt in Boca Raton who regales a friend on the phone with tales of her daughter's lesbian wedding--and enough one-liners and physical business...