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Neither Here Nor There is a gem of a book that combines little known history, interesting statistics and countless anecdotes that make for both an incredibly delightful read and an extremely enjoyable travel guide...
This obscure Shaw gem depicts "life in an English seaside resort" in the year 1896 and what happens when an impoverished dentist falls in love with the daughter of a feminist. When you learn that the feminist also has a pair of impertinent, over-cheerful, hyperactive twins, as well as a husband who is missing (though not for long), you realize that the stage has been set for comedy in the very best style of Shaw...
...produce a breakthrough to catapult them into the upper stratosphere of the Hit Heavens. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" demonstrated that it only takes one smash to accomplish this, but among the long and undistinguished song catalog that this middle-aged outfit drags behind them, such a gem is nowhere to be found...
...CRUCIBLE. Tony Randall launches his National Actors Theater on Broadway with an all-star revival of Arthur Miller's gem about the Salem witch trials, featuring Martin Sheen, Fritz Weaver and Michael York...
...call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the University of Bologna and the French editor of an African magazine. As we rounded Lake Merritt -- an urban gem endowed with islands that attract migratory waterfowl -- she said she hadn't realized that Oakland is so beautiful. I replied that a lot of us run down this city that the rappers call "Oaktown" because we don't want anybody else moving here. I was more than half serious...