Word: denizen
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...that rock 'n' roll in all its flamboyance so rarely finds common ground with theater. The rock musical Hedwig is an exception. A bona fide off-Broadway smash and soon-to-be-movie, Hedwig also makes a captivating rock-'n'-roll album. The tale of a transsexual trailer-park denizen, Hedwig echoes the gender-blending audacity of late 1970s David Bowie and the hormone-stoked feverishness of early Meat Loaf. But John Cameron Mitchell's vocals and Stephen Trask's music have their own raw poetry. The spirit of Hedwig shines through: cheeky, resilient, wounded but triumphant...
...with him. "Mr. Shawn," as he was addressed at the New Yorker, was beloved by his staff. His decency, skill, editorial patience and generosity are legendary. He was shy, courtly and neurotically self-effacing. Ross, however, reveals a side of the man that resembles a Walter Mitty fantasy: a denizen of jazz joints, racetracks and classy restaurants. He was also an ardent mate. "After 40 years, our love-making had the same passion, the same energies," Ross writes. "It never deteriorated, our later wrinkles, blotches, and scars of age notwithstanding...
...fair share of fine families, college graduates, astute businesspeople and nature lovers, not to mention theater and the arts, pristine mountains, wildlife and wildflowers, and premier restaurants and shops. Our skiing ranks among the best in the world. Our summers are a foretaste of paradise. As a former urban denizen, I count myself blessed to be spending my twilight years here in Shangri-La. JOSEPH E. MACHUREK Crested Butte, Colo...
...their desks, have never visited the World Wide Web. ("My kids have promised to teach me this summer.") Ask for their E-mail address, and they sheepishly start patting their suits, as if for a lost pen, and finally say, "My secretary knows it, I think." To a denizen of the Other Beltway, this is like not knowing your own phone number. (And the tired Washington posture of "I'm such a busy big shot that my secretary runs my life" is also foreign to the Other Beltway, where the preferred macho posture is "I've got my whole life...
...message has been corrected." Maybe not. Starr sounded desperate to quash any hopes that the investigation was winding down, answering one reporter's question about "the people's right to know" with a thoughtful promise to "seriously consider" what he called "the public information function." How could a Washington denizen like Starr so grossly underestimate his own significance as the head of the Whitewater crusade? Starr protested his innocence, saying it had taken "consultations with my professional colleagues" to show him the error of his ways. There are times when Malibu just has to wait...