Word: herman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, not all AL pitchers have been poor hitters. Seventy years ago, a mound prospect named George Herman Ruth hit so well for the Red Sox and Yankees that he was moved to the outfield where he could play everyday. The "Babe" had the most famous nickname ever, but thousands of players have been saddled with less notable monickers. Two points for each of the following players' nicknames...
Three other local sporting goods stores--Herman's World of Sporting Goods, James F. Brine, and Beacon Hill Skate Shop--all report similar sharp rises in skateboard sales since the end of last summer...
...Jerry Herman, who built his reputation as the composer and lyricist of Hello, Dolly and Mame, argues that in the theater, "the strongest single force you could have is a larger-than-life lady on the stage." That chivalric premise is supported by two current Broadway delights, Bernadette Peters' act-long vocal solo in Song & Dance and Lily Tomlin's one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. The same nothing-like-a-dame thinking underlies Jerry's Girls, a retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight...
...Herman's dictum proves regrettably true as an assessment of his own work. Although Girls offers raucous pleasures, they derive more from the skill and exuberance of the leading ladies, all past Tony winners, than from the melodies and lyrics, which are burdened with cliche-ridden predictability, relentless optimism and, worst, a prevailing sameness. Uggams' torchy numbers seem too much alike because the songs do. Loudon's comedy, almost all based on self-mockery for being plump and presumably over the hill, eventually becomes distasteful. Rivera, who could dance the telephone book entertainingly, more or less does just that...
Sources said that the Lampoon was too busy with preparations for its upcoming visit by Pee Wee Herman--who last week arrived in Cambridge to accept the humor society's Elmer Award--to achieve anything that clever or funny...