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...mostly this Broadway revival gets into the right spirit. The set, a swath of brown prairie dominated by an expanse of blue sky, seems ready at any moment to disgorge the cast of Oklahoma!, and the story of a smooth-talking drifter named Starbuck who comes to a drought-plagued Western community and promises to bring rain is full of corn-fed blather about the importance of dreams. "You don't believe in nothin'--not even yourself," Starbuck tells Lizzie, the plain farm woman whose brothers and father are desperately trying to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Wet Weather: His vehicle leaks, but Woody Harrelson shines | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

ROGER CLEMENS Sorry, Beantown. Rocket man gets ring after long Boston drought. Pr-ou-ou-d to be a Yankee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 8, 1999 | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...true that Boston lost this series with a spate of disastrous fielding errors and a horrific batting drought that reminded fans of old Sox teams, who would regularly load the bases with one out and fail to bring anyone home. But the natural highs and lows of this series (juxtaposed so stunningly in Games 3 and 4) will forever be stained by the artificial interference of poor umpiring calls in Games...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: No Apologies | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

After today's offensive drought, Harvard hopes to open the floodgates this weekend against Princeton...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M.Soccer Battles Holy Cross to Disappointing Tie | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...time she loses at an awards show (if you watched the Grammys closely last year, you might have seen her raging competitive fire). Even Steven Spielberg--who has everything, everything a man could possibly want in life--called his first Oscar "the best drink of water after the longest drought in my life." What the hell! Who cares! (And to prove he hasn't reevaluated his priorities, go back and watch his expression when he lost last year's Best Picture Oscar to Harvey Weinstein and the Shakespeare in Love team.) On the other side of the coin are artists...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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