Word: funke
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...cash. Now they are even flashing plastic to buy groceries. Household borrowing currently stands at a record $1.14 trillion, an amount equal to Britain's entire gross domestic product. A spike in interest rates could thus send U.S. consumers--not to mention the rest of the economy--into a funk...
PLEADED GUILTY. SAVION GLOVER, 22, star of the Tony Award-winning Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk; to a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from an arrest for impaired driving and marijuana possession; in New York City...
Does serious drama still have a place on Broadway? The season just drawing to a close was hardly encouraging. Musicals like Rent and Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk generated most of the excitement. The few straight plays that succeeded at the box office typically boasted either a big star name--Carol Burnett in the lame farce Moon over Buffalo--or a flamboyant star turn--Zoe Caldwell as rampaging diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class...
This is Corinne E. Funk's last column of the semester...
Another lean Broadway season is sputtering to a close, and as usual before the Tony Awards, there is a flutter of activity. Last week two bright dancey shows opened: Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, a black tap-dance revue developed downtown at the New York Shakespeare Festival; and Big, a more conventional musical based on the 1988 movie that starred Tom Hanks. Both have broad appeal; neither fulfills all its potential...