Word: hamming
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...those perpetually hungry for Mexican food, there will be breakfast every day starting at 7 a.m., when ham, egg and chorizo sausage burritos will be served, along with café de olla, which is the only kind of coffee Espinoza drinks...
...Rogers' Hart phase should be the apprentice work, leading to the fullness of the Hammerstein years. Yet if you listen with alert ears and a clean-slate mind, you might think that the R&Ham songs had come first; for they are ripe with sentimental Americana, fashioned in long melodic lines for big, fluty voices, and grounded in the turn-of-the-century operetta form. They seem far more innocent, more remote from our day, than the R&Hart oeuvre...
...Hammerstein. They wrote 10 more musicals, from the 1945 "Carousel" to the 1959 "The Sound of Music" - which has proved so durable that what originally was kitsch endures as camp, in the sing-along movie version that so enthralled Londoners a couple of years ago. On stage, the R&Ham shows are still playing ("Oklahoma!" is on Broadway now) and will keep playing ("Flower Drum Song" opens in October...
...FERDINAND, 23, ENGLAND In 2000, Ferdinand was sold to the English Premier League club Leeds United from West Ham United for a record $26 million, yet the defender was still a relative unknown when he arrived at World Cup 2002. Not any more. His lithe movement and pinpoint tackling earned him plaudits as one of the players of the tournament. His kind of authority at the back lends itself to any scheme of play. Manchester United has put in a bid for as much as $53 million. VALUE: $53 million, up from $26 million...
...boy’s father, seeing his son’s critical state, put out a call for help over ham radio. For nine hours, Hirschman used the radio to instruct the father how to provide medical assistance—aid that helped bring the boy back from the brink of death...