Word: darning
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...sounds like it could be background music for Hee Haw, and host Martin Kratt is all got up in cowboy boots and a bandanna just like the country show's star, Roy Clark. This episode, Kratt explains in a humorously fake Western accent, will focus on bovines, "the puurtiest darn cows I've ever seen." But he's not talking about barnyard animals, and his brother and co-host Chris waddles onto the scene to set things straight. The show is actually about sea cows. What are sea cows? Ah, that's the fun on Kratts' Creatures--finding such things...
Next question: Why do serious musicals have to be so darn brown? As in Les Miz, earth tones predominate here--except in the peasants' garb, nicely creased and Rinso white. One thing about these villagers: they've all seen Riverdance; Bob Avian's choreography has the heavy-footed agility of that hit Irish dance show. The choral harmonies do have a vaulting magnificence, as 30 or so voices pump out Schonberg's anthems. But director Declan Donnellan (who, for his own Cheek by Jowl troupe, staged a superb As You Like It) can't make the drama sing. Guerre...
Still, fund raising is Kerrey's primary mission, and for an ethereal guy, he's pretty darn good at it. He has raised $16 million, up 12% from the same cycle in 1994 (though still far short, as always, of what the Republicans have raked in, about $30 million so far). Put the phone to your ear, and listen to an excerpt of Bob Kerrey dialing for dollars. Kerrey (stern): "Yes, we'll elect a few stinkers, I suppose, but I believe that we'll bring to Washington some people who will use your hard-earned money to help endow...
...very nice self-affirmation," he later says. "It sort of says, 'I'm statistically significant, and darn it, I matter...
...great secret that junior captain Ian Carswell and senior Karen Goetze were darn good. Carswell was the defending Heptagonal Championships winner and an NCAA qualifier, while Goetze led Harvard to its first Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular championship in eight years...