Word: dunham
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...wasn't always that bad in East St. Louis. Katherine Dunham, a grande dame of the dance, was able to operate a studio in the city in the late 1960s. Heptathlon gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee recalls a happy childhood there and still returns occasionally from the West Coast to visit friends. But today the hottest ticket in East St. Louis is a ticket out of it. The two high schools produce perennial state champions in football and basketball, putting - a few gifted athletes on the road to college, hoping for stardom in the N.F.L. or N.B.A. For other youngsters...
...first major violation of the revised alcohol policy occurred January 14 when Hanover, N.H., police arrested Dartmouth sophomore Richard Dunham, for unlawful possession of alcohol by a minor...
...Because Dunham had obtained the alcohol at the Beta fraternity, of which he is a member, the Office of Residential Life put the fraternity on probation. The house will no longer be allowed to serve beer at social functions, although individual members will be permitted to bring alcohol to fraternity meetings, The Dartmouth reported...
Speaking of which, there were people at the convention who thought their puppets were alive, truly. Jeff Dunham, a rising star from Dallas who was in the touring company of the Broadway hit Sugar Babies, explained this frame of mind: "If you convince yourself that the dummy is really alive, that he is a separate entity, it works much better onstage. It is much more convincing to the audience. Even Bergen, who was far from crazy, talked about Charlie as if he were alive. However, it does get a little spooky sometimes if you let yourself get carried away with...
...kids. Underwear. Kids think it is really funny. Or the puppet could say, 'Kissywooooooooo.' Anything with kiss in it. They're starting to think about boy-girl things." Mark went on to talk about mapping and diagramming jokes and planning ad libs until it was time for Jeff Dunham to speak. Jeff talked about comedy writing, and he said $ soundly that if you could create a joke a day pretty soon you would have a routine, much as it is said that if you could write a page a day every year you would have a novel. The audience took...