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...imitation is the highest form of flattery, then U2, Sting and Blues Traveler should feel gleeful upon hearing "St. Stanislaus of East 7th." Gutterboy seeks to combine the masterful musicianship of all three, but in an amazing musical feat somehow manages to dilute their power instead of combining the enormous talent...
...business leaders had pressured the administration to relax the sanctions. Most poor Haitians say they will suffer anything to get back their beloved leader, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The New York Times captured the junta's response to the Bush move in a simple headline: "Leaders of Coup Gleeful After U.S. Loosens Its Embargo...
...similarly tight ensembles and loose moods, as did "Route 66," even though Gavan Meehan's scatting sounded sickly. A daper Albert Hsia did great things for Cole Porter's great song, "Night and Day," and Peter Wardle's thick solo in "Body and Soul" earned high accolades from the gleeful Sanders masses...
When Tyne Daly took an afternoon off from rehearsing Gypsy to attend a musical down the street, she accosted its producer on the way in to demand, "You haven't ruined it, have you? I've loved the novel all my life." That ( same mix of gleeful anticipation and dread is felt by countless other, less celebrated patrons entering The Secret Garden, for many of whom it, rather than Miss Saigon, has been this season's most eagerly awaited Broadway show. Its source, a 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, appeals equally to sentimentalists infatuated with its Edwardian gothic setting...
...proliferation of chemical weaponry. "It's not ethical to get involved in things that could end up in chemical weapons," said Mobay spokesman Gerd Wilcke. The Pentagon is in a bit of a quandary since the two companies are the only domestic suppliers. Chemical-weapons opponents are discreetly gleeful. Said Congressman Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "This incident should give the Pentagon a chance to rethink its posi-tion and support the President's own policy of chemical non- proliferation...