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...shop, a refinished basement adorned with cosmic photographs and pottery as well as several lively and colorful parrots, seems to be the type of quirky, esoteric store that many lament is quickly disappearing from Harvard Square...
Still, organizers lament the lost opportunity to display Harvard's outstanding scientific facilities and the facilities of the greater Boston area...
...ends of the earth to hide that from anybody. Altogether brilliant." He moved on to Hollywood in 1937, fashioning bright novelties for comedy and dramatic actresses. Marlene Dietrich memorably mooed See What the - Boys in the Back Room Will Have, and Bette Davis croaked the wartime lament They're Either Too Young or Too Old. It was all 'prentice work for a man who would become one of Broadway's great sketch artists, whose songs could propel the story even as they stopped the show...
...Guys and Dolls is in Loesser's capturing of the Damon Runyon Broadway wit, and by extension the unique pizazz of big-town America. No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic desperation, as in the nonpareil Adelaide's Lament. Nobody ever heard a love plaint like Nathan Detroit's: "All right already, I'm just a nogoodnik./ All right already, it's true. So nu?/ So sue me, sue me, what can you do me?/ I love...
...particularly instructive Sesame Street episode, Bert and Ernie find themselves confronted with rain leaking through a hole in the roof. They lament that it is impossible to go out and fix the roof while it's still raining. Thus, they continue to get wet. When the weather finally clears, though, they decide not to bother fixing the roof, reasoning that you don't need a good roof as long as it's not raining...