Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's no joy in Bronxville, or anywhere else in the five boroughs for that matter, the morning after the defending World Series champion Yankees lost the fifth and deciding game of their division series 4-3 to the Cleveland Indians. The win puts the Indians in the American League championship series for the second time in three years, this time as the underdog to the Baltimore Orioles...
...cameras followed my every move. Pictures of my carrying his belongings were the lead story on the national CBS and NBC news that night. Scott's parents drove their son's corpse back to their home near Buffalo last week, just one month after they drove their pride and joy...
Unlike today's breed of safe-bet directors, Stone is the guy who tries things. He works fast and hard: U Turn, the dark, barking melodrama that opens this week, is his 11th feature in 11 years. He godfathers other films (The People vs. Larry Flint, The Joy Luck Club), dabbles in TV (Wild Palms), keeps stoking his legend. A Child's Night Dream should do that: it's a big, toxic dose of undiluted Oliver. But don't take his word for him. Check out Jane Hamsher's funny, true-sounding Killer Instinct (Broadway Books; 288 pages; $25), about...
Pygmalion is on one level a lightly speculative exercise on social mobility and the potential of human education-the idea that even a flower girl can be transformed into a lady by learning to speak and dress like one. And on this level, the play is a joy to watch, grounding the fairy tale quality of the story with gloriously Shavian wit. But as a drama of human relations, it's much more frustrating and far less palatable than many of the playwright's other works (the fourth act, when done with enough punch, is one of the most brutally...
...where he has been developing above-the-knee artificial limbs, Chandra points out a little girl whose leg was severed in a bus crash. "People said I would be a rich man if we had patented the Jaipur foot, but it's enough satisfaction for me to see the joy on that girl's face when she walks again." He adds, "I'm still learning from my patients. I haven't done anything...