Word: golden
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...turns out, Larson also left behind a children's mini-musical that he co-wrote with composer Bob Golden. Titled Away We Go!, the half-hour songfest--a youngster's travelogue of Manhattan--originally aired on the Learning Channel and has just been released on video. The host of the musical, which is conceived for two- to eight-year-olds, is a shabby-looking puppet named Newt who takes a young boy and girl for taxi, bus and ferry rides throughout the city...
...most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan had the courage of his convictions." He didn't have to mention what everyone knew: Reagan had borrowed his beliefs from Kemp, the Elmer Gantry of supply-side economics...
Think of an aging musician stopping on a street corner where a great dance palace once stood, yearning for one more Big Band night, when men in white dinner jackets pressed golden horns to their lips while a woman in a red evening gown with a flower in her hair sang plaintively of love...
...worst things for a newsmagazine is a long drought of news. Almost as challenging is being hit with two stories the same week. Sometimes they pair interestingly in our minds and on our cover: Kerri Strug's golden heart and a two-bit pipe bomber's tarnished mind allow us to grapple with the courage and cowardice of the human soul. But sometimes the stories are eerily disparate, hard to balance in our minds because the relative weight of each seems more difficult to calculate the closer together we bring them...
...week of compelling track and field and a fortnight of exhilarating Olympic performances, Johnson's golden shoes left the biggest imprint. The Atlanta Games will and should be remembered for the bomb that killed Alice Hawthorne, 44, of Albany, Georgia, and they will and should serve as a manual on how not to transport people. But the sports themselves moved millions in Atlanta and at home. Track and field, in particular, was a treasure trove: a ninth gold medal for Carl Lewis in the long jump; redemption for Dan O'Brien in the decathlon; a world record...