Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young children (other than pre-frosh) and roommates of the cast. Why was it that the latest Gilbert & Sullivan production did not seem to appeal to the college-aged crowd? Was it that so many other plays and parties were happening that night as well? Was it the idea of a comic British play first performed in 1877 that turned of most theater-goers...
...love of the ditzy but endearing Vicar, Dr. Daly (John Driscoll '99). Everybody seems enamored either with another person or with love itself. Even Alexis' pompous father, Sir Marmaduke (Jordan Cooper '99), admits that he too once adored Aline's noble mother, Lady Sangazure (Anja Kollmus). Delighted with the idea of everyone falling in love, regardless of class, age, or even personal tastes, Alexis ignores Aline's protests and enlists the aid of a sorcerer to cast a spell on the town through a love philter. The sorcerer, J.W. Wells (Joe Nuccio '00), complies, and the village falls into...
When he made the TIME 25 last year, DICK MORRIS was little known to the public but crucial to the White House. In campaign '96 he "triangulated" Clinton into the political center and sold the idea of a massively expensive media buy that kept Democrats scrambling to pay the bills (see above: Al Gore, problems of). But just as Morris emerged on the cover of TIME and the President headed for his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, the supermarket tabloid Star pushed the plunger on the dynamite Morris rested upon. A paid companion told just how she had companioned...
...work of fiction, a novel called Thumbsucker. As a critic, says Kirn, you're always curious as to whether anyone is following your advice or heeding your warnings. "People's reading habits are a murky subject," he says. "Unless you catch people in the act, you really have no idea of what's actually happening. There were times when I praised books to the sky and never saw a copy of them in public. It makes you wonder." As a writer, he says, he's "cautiously encouraged" to believe that the latest spurt in reading is a long-term change...
...Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown--where busy workers are sometimes more familiar with the inventory of flavored coffees than the location of the new John Updike novel--reading can seem like a sideshow, not the main event. Flutes play. Writers recite. Young singles munch bagels. Toddlers look for Waldo. "The idea of the cafe and the couches," says Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chief operating officer, "is to make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying (to the tune of 20% last year) and even stores whose...