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...ham radio stations at the University of Massachusetts will have to end their operation because of law that prohibit stations with signals as weak as theirs, the Associated Press reported this week...
...orchestra, on the other hand, is to the production as a wart is to a foot. But that is traditional. And even though the dancers are frequently out of step, the choreography, satirizing dance steps from the 60s, is delightful. In handling the beatnik kitsch, the more the dancers ham it up, the better...
...over. It got dark fast. I forgot where I was supposed to meet the bus. It was cold and I had no gloves. I was hungry, too, but there were no concessions stands, just old folks wearing Yale blue next to rows and rows of cars with oceans of ham and cheese and roast beef flowing out the back. But whenever I approached, they'd look at me dubiously. A guy would say, "May I help you?" and I'd say, "No, just looking, thanks." Oceans of ham and cheese and roast beef. And I couldn't swim...
...seedy hack screenwriter in Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius, Christopher Lloyd may have the toughest job of all; the invitation to ham it up is virtually flashed in neon. Cobbled together from three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the episode is a bit sketchy and disjointed, but Lloyd fills the screen with a funny yet carefully modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio...
...first and last 25 pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypical American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and last-minute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...