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Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote nine musicals together. Five are legendary hits: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. (Flower Drum Song was a success, but not in the same league as the golden five.) They wrote one film musical, State Fair, and the TV special Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews. They were also hugely canny producers. Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun was but one of the works they produced that was not their own. Their flops--Allegro, Me and Juliet and Pipe Dream--were probably a result, as much as anything, of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN :The Showmen | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...KACC also started a traditional drum troop. After the split, the remaining members of KOHR renamed themselves the Korean Students Association. The KSA coordinated a mentoring program in addition to organizing frequent social events...

Author: By Hoon-jung Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking to Unify Campus Community, Four Korean Student Groups Merge | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...decades the phrase "by the end of the century" denoted something far distant. But it is distant no longer. Millennial predictions are proliferating with increasing speed as prognosticators try to get in under the wire. The Internet, that electronic jungle drum, vibrates to the beat of prophecy. Much of it is in the religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Can The Millennium Deliver? | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...committed the crime, it would have to be ?because I loved [Nicole] very much.? And his motive? ?He?d like to win back the public,? Petrocelli suggests, ?and if admitting it would get him there he might do it.? O.J. says Petrocelli has a motive of his own -- to drum up controversy for his new book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J. Simpson: Acting Out for Absolution? | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...This year we had the Jumpstarts, a NorthCarolina ska band, and Different Drum, a jazzband," Strauss says. "We only have $2500 to spendbetween the game and band, so we can't get bandsthat do national touring...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard's Spring Best? | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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