Word: hoods
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...wish.” The story centers around a childless Baker and his Wife, who must obtain four items to reverse a curse set upon them by the Witch. Along the way, they meet Cinderella, Jack (as in “and the Beanstalk”), Little Red Riding Hood and a whole host of characters, each bent on obtaining his or her own particular desire. The first act ends brightly, with the characters obtaining their goals and settling down to live “happily ever after.” The second act of the musical, however, brings...
Ravi Desai admits he's a lousy poet. But he's pretty good at spinning tales. The 31-year-old Harvard graduate talks like the Robin Hood of Silicon Valley, promising to shower info-tech lucre on cash-strapped creative-writing programs across the land. "We need to support the soul as well as the mind," he croons from a two-man consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. What Desai actually delivers, however, is a parable about the perils of falling for a dotcom dreamer...
...indignant. Luke W. M. White ’03 recently stated in “An Artist’s Best Friend” (Opinion, April 2) that “every age needs its Robin Hood.” The generation that Tom Brokaw and others have called the “greatest” needed no such hoodlums. Our grandfathers who fought on the beaches of Dunkirk and Normandy and kept the trust of democracy in the civilized world were beyond the lawlessness and the vandalism that White seems to encourage. He is part and parcel...
Napster has facilitated breaking the law, but every age needs its Robin Hood. Before we give a few pop stars a multi-million dollar pat on the back and put our tails between our legs, ashamed of our overflowing hard-drives, perhaps we should consider getting pissed off. Napster has been regulated and commercialized, stripped of its lawless integrity. Apparently a grass-roots industry was just too good to be true...
...citing instances of "exuberant tastelessness" at this year's Grammy ceremony, you included Madonna's "writhing on a hood ornament," noting her age and the fact that she is the mother of two. But you didn't give the same information about the other performers. Does being 42 years old and a mother of two have any bearing on the tastelessness of some particular behavior? LYNNE A. MCVEY Pleasantville...