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...explosion has brought a couple of horn-based groups to the forefront of the popular modern rock movement. Replete with animated lyrics and cheery melodies, Reel Big Fish revels in their own path to fame with "Sellout." The next time you hear this song, picture two cars swerving down a rural, gravel-paved road on a sunny day with hands swaying outside the driver's side windows. I know I will. Then there is the more serious but just as exciting "The Impression That I Get" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Although they are musically superior to Reel Big Fish...
Some of the less glorified sports are starting to make their impressions on the new students. Instead of football and hockey championships, tennis, squash and soccer have surged to the forefront as students have become more impressed with the Crimson's athletic diversity than its brawn...
...forefront of the movement are McDonagh, 26; Patrick Marber, 32, whose play Closer is running at the National's small Cottesloe Theatre; and Mark Ravenhill, 31, whose controversial play Shopping and F______ is finishing a month-long run at the West End's Gielgud Theatre before heading to Edinburgh; it will be seen in New York City early next year. An earlier trilogy of McDonagh's opened this past weekend at the Duke of York's, which makes him the only writer this season, apart from Shakespeare, to have four plays running concurrently in London...
...force for racial cooperation. "The first black baptized here I baptized six or seven years ago, and some of the people literally went into shock," says Paul Powell, retired pastor of Kingshighway Baptist Church. "It took some doing, but these old southside German Baptists are now in the racial forefront...
...distribution of weight given to each of the four characters throughout the course of the play. Though Tom's narration frames the overall story, he and his mother dominate the first half (Preparation for a gentleman caller) to give way to Laura and Jim, who come to the forefront in the second (The Gentleman calls). For awhile, Amanda Wingfield really seems to take over as the central figure--the former Southern belle whose husband went AWOL long ago, and who is forced to inhabit a world of straightened means and two children as entrapped as herself. She confronts these facts...