Word: hams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year or so ago, you were a gazelle-like, middle-aged, free-lance magazine journalist with corded forearms and an old pickup truck -- and quite a few of us and our trucks fit that description -- you had to wish that Robert James Waller had taken up a different hobby, ham radio or UFOs maybe, instead of writing itty-bitty novels. Because after The Bridges of Madison County hit the best-seller lists, with its weepy tale of 52-year-old photographer Robert Kincaid and fortyish Iowa farm wife Francesca Johnson meeting and spending four days in forbidden aerobics, then...
Twilight often resembles a couple of far less weighty Jewish family comedies now on Broadway, The Sisters Rosensweig and a slick new romance between sexagenarians, Mixed Emotions -- except it isn't nearly as good. Arvin Brown's ham-fisted direction leads to stilted acting from everyone save Sbarge and Michael Spound as his whiny brother...
...appeal is universal; observe the diversity--yardlings' arms' laden with corn tortillas, salsa and soda; an older gentleman carrying a quart of milk and cereal; a German couple juggling "gourmet" deli sandwiches (chicken salad and ham and cheese); a semi-punk, white-faced crowd waiting on a pack of Marlboros and Lindt chocolate bars...
...here today warning about the danger of civil war in Russia, as a result of those policies being imposed upon the former Soviet Union, in the form of Jeffrey Sachs shock therapy," said LaRouche supporter Roger P. Ham...
Camelot might be fun for its lush score -- If Ever I Would Leave You, How to Handle a Woman and the title number -- if the current revival did not look so silly, ham it up so much and underscore so painfully the indefinition and lack of motivation in all the characters. Instead, the national touring production that opened on Broadway last week proves Stephen Sondheim's dictum that nothing dates faster than a musical...