Word: hat
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...book expertly evokes Welles' wildly inventive productions of the mid-'30s: a "voodoo" Macbeth with the Negro Unit of the WPA's Federal Theater; a Julius Caesar set in Fascist Italy; a violent farce, Horse Eats Hat, with 74 actors; Marc Blitzstein's folk opera The Cradle Will Rock, which the WPA shut down and Welles reopened the same night, marching his cast and audience from the original Broadway house to another, empty one for the triumphant outlaw premiere. There were riots outside Welles' shows--to get in. His work was denounced by the Communist Party and the Hearst papers...
...imagemakers--could boast the writing talent to pull off a work of fiction that is the best aide's-eye view of politics since Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, published in 1946. Narrated in the voice of Stephanopoulos-clone Henry Burton (a tip of the hat to Warren's Jack Burden?), the novel captures with eerie precision the psychological bonds between the Clintonesque candidate (hyperambitious Southern Governor Jack Stanton) and his most indispensable adviser. Here is Burton, who is portrayed as the grandson of a Martin Luther King-like civil rights martyr, describing his duties...
That morning, in his old-medicine role as advocate, he signed a legal declaration "in support" of Christy's fight for an injunction. At 3 o'clock that afternoon, wearing his new-medicine hat, he and two UCLA colleagues met with other oncologists and Health Net officials at the Hyatt Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport for another meeting of the company's bone-marrow committee...
...past weekend wasn't too different. Perrin registered a hat trick in the third period in the Princeton game, helping his team overtake a feisty Princeton squad. For his efforts, Perrin earned the ECAC Player of the Week award. Perrin is the ECAC's leading scorer, having tallied 13 goals and assisted on 26 others. Catamount goalie Tim Thomas is also tops in the league with a 13-3-2 overall record and a 1.98 goal-against average...
HERE COMES THE BRIDLE Is this a new rule: something garish, something blue? Publicity huntress Ivana Trump wore a pale blue dress when she wed Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli. But the hat trick was an asymmetrical white voilette by Thierry Mugler. Neigh