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...Harvard women's soccer team is good. Darn, darn, darn good. Good enough to romp through the Ivy League undefeated for the second straight year. Good enough to make the NCAA Tournament, which the team did not do in 1995. Maybe even good enough to be called a juggernaut...
...some throat clearing for a moment among the speechwriters, as deep disillusionment overcame them. None of these classic guys, they realized, had ever written a convention speech before, and probably the whole lot of them working overtime couldn't put together a 30-second commercial if they tried. "Darn," said the President finally, "get me a real writer. Like that Helprin fellow, if he's still peddling paragraphs--or, hey, what about Peggy Noonan herself...
...idea of three or four Starbucks may be fine from their marketing point of view," she said, "but it doesn't do a darn thing for Harvard Square...
...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...