Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disintegration in the celebrity spotlight is the theme of a modest, moving piece, Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave. Williams, the country singer responsible for such hits as Your Cheatin' Heart, Jambalaya, Half as Much and Hey, Good Lookin', was a prototype of the doomed, dark star: drink and drugs sent him on an inevitable trajectory to death at 29 in 1953. Maynard Collins' play is conceived as Williams' last concert, in which he performs 22 of his songs while telling his version of an entertainer's life and self-inflicted hard times...
...back in the pack. "We beat them by a couple of feet, I don't know why, but we got first (and a University and GBC record along with Joe Salvo, Kim Stephens, and Peter Nsiah). It was great, that race set the tone for the meet. It said, 'Hey, Harvard is here to run and win.' We won the GBC's that day--I'll never forget...
...former professor at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Grigson became a familiar courthouse figure while diagnosing people for commitment proceedings. As he tells it, one court veteran suddenly thought, " 'Hey, here's a sane psychiatrist.' Instead of playing golf on Wednesday, I started doing legal work." Court cases now take up most of his professional time and, at $100 an hour, bring him some $60,000 a year. Says University of Texas Law Professor George Dix: "He is skillful and persuasive, and he doesn't talk down to the jury." Most important, says Dix, Grigson...
...Hey now, is this stuff funny-or what?To a lot of people the routines are crashingly unfunny. But to others they represent a new permanent wave in the history of popular humor: an assault on the accepted notions of show-business clowning...
...work program is often used not merely for economy but as a character builder and educational aid. Says History Professor John Forbes: "There is a tremendous experience of being responsible." Adds a school administrator: "If one student throws paper on the ground, the next student will say, 'Hey, I'm the one who is going to have to pick that...