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Brown hopes to carry her sense of humor andflare for comedy into her professional life,eventually starting her own T.V. show. There, asshe describes it, "I can entertain, have a bit offun, and provide a bit of wisdom...
...pitch black evening the night before Thanksgiving in the middle of World War II, A dozen Radcliffe students traveled to a military base in a remote area on the coast of Massachusetts to entertain troops watching for enemy submarines...
...Danny Kaye stuff, whatever we could do to entertain them," she says, adding that the isolated troops were easy to please. "They were great audiences. All you needed was two legs and a skirt...
...your item "Band-Aid, Pentagon-Style" [CHRONICLES, May 8], you state that it will "cost even more to entertain the troops with precise renditions of The Stars and Stripes Forever!" This incorrectly implies that the service bands merely provide "entertainment" for toe-tapping service personnel or other casual listeners. Military bands include some of the finest professional musicians in the world. As a music educator, I look to these exemplary performing ensembles as a model both aesthetic and professional for my students. The days are long past when the bands played only John Philip Sousa marches as troops passed...
...structures and monuments on Mars and the moon. "We make a lot of hay about the idea that there is a mistrust of government," admits Chris Carter, executive producer of The X-Files. "One of our mantras on The X-Files is 'trust no one.' I'm trying to entertain people in paranoid times...