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Anyone who has seen Ragtime knows there is no finer singer on Broadway than McDonald. A 28-year-old Juilliard School graduate who opted for musical comedy over grand opera, she has a tangy, beautifully focused soprano voice and an intensely evocative way with words. She could make a toothpaste jingle sound poignant--and the songs on Way Back to Paradise are anything but mindless tunes. Jason Robert Brown's Stars and the Moon tells the wry tale of a material girl who brushes off a series of poor but ardent suitors only to learn that yachts and champagne aren...
...Finer fabrics are even making its way intocasual wear, Casey explained, pointing out theirpopular unlined, loose-fitting drawstring woolpants, running...
...They're leading scholars," said Alex Huppe, director of the Harvard News Office. "It's obviously a signal honor. There's probably no finer position to hold in all academia...
...seems that the tendons, nerves and soft tissue of my wrists and forearm protested my indulgence in one of the finer things of college dining. Riding my bike, taking notes in class, carrying heavy items and even opening doors are prohibited or limited activities. It's like being imprisoned...
...protean variety, his febrile energy (which could have come from his lifelong habit of popping nitroglycerin pills for a dicey heart), his incessant self-celebration and his absolute refusal to believe there was anything finer than to be born an American, unless to die as one in some glorious battle for the flag, the great "Teddy" was as representative of 20th century dynamism as Abraham Lincoln had been of 19th century union and George Washington of 18th century independence...