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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nuff without showing off. "Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?" gets rhymes out of "mountains I clum ? oceans I swum." Another Oscar winner, "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," swings easy with "In the shank of the night, / When the doin's are right, / You can tell 'em I'll be there." Graae made an evening-long shtick of interrupting Osgood to sing yet more stanzas of "Spring, Spring, Spring," a Mercer-Gene DePaul number from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" that shows the lyricist at his most puckish. Consider these couplets that lead up to the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Musicals Like New | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins?" (Mary had won his heart by revealing she makes the best corn muffins. When they reach the White House, Mary says she'll bake "corn muffins for the unemployed!" Wintergreen cries, "That's my girl! You feed 'em and I'll sing to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Musicals Like New | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...bushes during an attack. Music is limited to revolutionary songs. The photos that plastered Samandi's bedroom walls were of dead suicide bombers, not pop stars. And movies in Tiger territory were a strict diet of action flicks, both homemade efforts using real war footage and Hollywood shoot-?em-ups. For unmarried Samandi, sex or even holding hands, like cigarettes and alcohol, was banned. The Tiger leadership also reserved the right to prevent any marriage it deemed unsuitable - that is, outside L.T.T.E ranks - and sometimes arranged unions between guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sri Lanka's Rebels Build a Suicide Bomber | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...pitching change failed to halt the Eagle onslaught. Boston College quickly doubled the score on a two-bagger. Watkins then prompted a groundball to shortstop to retire the first batter of the inning. The Eagles touched home one more time before junior Julia Kidder started an impressive tag-em-out, throw-em-out double play. Watkins returned for a 1-2-3 fourth, helped by the second of three double plays on the day. Watkins again faced trouble in the sixth. Despite turning a double play, The Crimson could not close the inning before Boston College scored its sixth...

Author: By Courtney M. Petrouski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bats Fall Silent, Pitching Falters in Season-Ending Loss | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Kay Noble-Bell, 65, fierce, feminine star wrestler of the 1960s and '70s; of stomach cancer; in Amarillo, Texas. Known for gravity-defying leaps in the ring to evade such opponents as Gladys (Kill 'Em) Gillem, Noble-Bell wrestled her first match at 18 and competed for 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 15, 2006 | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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