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Purging is probably not the exact word either of them would use for it; minutes into Finley's first monologue, she is "bleeding and puking on your mauve living room" because she finds no other way of rousing us from our apathy: "hello America, no answer, hello society, no answer...no more comfort." References to the Rodney King riots, the Clarence Thomas trial and the William Kennedy affair back up her mournful claim that "this is the the age of reverse." Even in her more humorous moments, she refuses to compromise her political sensibility: "I want all girl bands...
...Gracie ((Allen)), still working for CBS, were involved in a running gag about Gracie's 'missing brother' George Allen . . . In working out their opening exchange ((for a guest appearance on Rudy Vallee's radio show on NBC in the 1930s)), all hands agreed it might begin with Rudy saying, 'Hello, Gracie, have you found George yet?' Scripts were prepared accordingly. NBC in a last-minute ruling, decreed otherwise. The missing brother gag, NBC held, was a CBS promotion and nuts to a rival network promoting itself over NBC facilities. The script would have to be rewritten, the missing brother crack...
When it opened during the 1963-64 Broadway season, this sweet, sly string quartet of a musical was drowned out by the brass of Funny Girl and the percussion of Hello, Dolly! -- not to mention star turns by Bea Lillie in High Spirits, Bert Lahr in Foxy and Bob Fosse in Pal Joey. During the decades since, She Loves Me has become a closet favorite of theater insiders. At last, the cognoscenti have let the rest of the world in on the secret. A perfect revival opened last week, a 2 1/2-hour nonstop smile punctuated by laughter and a lacing...
...permanently furrowed brows. It sounds a bit like Japanese, a bit like Yiddish, with a lot of choking sounds and rough, saliva-spraying sibilants. (A handkerchief is recommended for novice speakers.) The idiom of a warrior culture, Klingon doesn't have words for "nice" or "pretty" or even "hello" -- the standard greeting is "What do you want?" (nuqneH?). But if you want to say "Surrender or die!" and sound like you mean it, Klingon...
...people in different stages of life. In Chinese tradition a boy of school age would be given a "book name," to be used in arranging marriages and other official matters. A boy's book name might be "Worthy Prince" or "Spring Dragon" or "Celestial Emolument." (Does a father say, "Hello, have you met my boy, Celestial Emolument...