Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mary downplayed the celebrity's appearance, saying: "[Wilhelm] is not involved in our campaign in any way, shape, or form. He was personally curious about campaign dynamics and electronic means of campaigning, [the uses of] e-mail [and the] web page. It was more a joke than anything...
...curious to see exactly how your packets are getting from place to place, use a traceroute utility. To track the way packets go from a Harvard Unix system, just type traceroute followed by the name of the computer in question at the prompt. Or download a traceroute utility from a Web site like shareware.com to test the paths from your desktop computer itself...
...show may answer several questions for younger theatergoers curious about Broadway's past. For example: What was choreography? Ann Reinking has staged Chicago's dances in homage to original director and choreographer Bob Fosse (her live-in companion for several years), and one look at that distinctive Fosse style--bodies that slither and strut, every hunched shoulder or cocked head a seductive come-on--is a reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. John Kander and Fred Ebb's score is a model of its craft. No detachable love ballads here, just a stream of tuneful, witty numbers...
...another recounting? "This is an endlessly fascinating and timeless story," defends executive producer Frank Konigsberg before hinting at the tragedy's real resonance for Hollywood types. "It's like the opening night of the biggest movie in the world flopping." This Titanic features a shipboard thief-rapist, played with curious jauntiness by Tim Curry. Unlike his doomed fellow passengers, Curry's character manages to escape from lines like "The ocean is so big, isn't it? It makes one feel so small and insignificant...
Perhaps the most curious Titanic project is a Broadway musical planned for this spring and titled, inevitably, Titanic (no exclamation point). "This isn't going to be The Love Boat," insists composer and lyricist Maury Yeston. The show has been the butt of Broadway jokes, but Yeston contends that the Titanic lends itself perfectly to musical theater. "Part of the story is hubris, part is profoundly human," he explains. "This is the stuff of musical theater: people are so moved they can no longer speak. They are forced to sing." Or sink...