Word: dig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business as usual last week, even though Dortch turned out to be an awkward, stiff emcee who will have a rough time holding the Bakker audience. In his first outing at the 2,000-member Heritage Village Church after Bakker's departure, Dortch said, "We'll all have to dig a little deeper...
Indeed, many of the people who take time off concur that their experiences alter their perspectives on the world. Vittimberga, who worked on an archaeological dig in Raratonga, lived with a Polynesian family during her year off. The Eliot House resident says this experience was the most worthwhile part of his year...
...might be the pop-music equivalent of the excavation of ancient Troy, but the dig was just five miles from Broadway. In 1979 Henry Cohen, an executive for Warner Bros. Music, which owns publication rights to the songs, made a rough survey of the Secaucus material. "He didn't know its significance," Kimball recalls, "but he sent the list around. In 1982 he showed it to Donald Rose, a Gershwin scholar. Donald thought it was awesome and called me. In the first two boxes we found Gershwin's Pardon My English, which was presumed lost, and Cole Porter...
...either you do things right or you make no attempt is the way Stan sees the world. He rehearsed his band for ages before he took it public. And when he finally did, it blew the public's hat in the creek, which is to say the band cooked, dig? It was tight. And it is not a stretch to say Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra came on like a train, to liken them to the Chattanooga Choo Choo...
...performance is to regional theater standards, ranging from fair to good. The Huntington's style puts quite a bit of weight on the actor's shoulders, and generally they dig into their melodramatic motivations with not a trace of self-consciousness. Particularly good is Gary Sloan, who keeps the part of Moe Axelrod from sliding into a hysterical morass of cliche and mannerism. How he can deliver lines to the woman he's in love with like "I wrote my name on you. I'm indelible ink" with a straight face is beyond me, but he does...