Word: lapin
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DIED. AARON LAPIN, 85, inventor of Reddi-wip; in Los Angeles. Lapin--nicknamed Bunny (his last name means rabbit in French)--introduced his aerosol canister of cream in 1946. Within five years, the former clothing salesman was a millionaire...
...this age of millennium bugs, impeachment trials and ghosts of biological warfare, Picasso at the Lapin Agile takes us back to a gentler time, when the future was something to harness not something that would spin out of our hands, threatening to engulf our present civilization...
...campus since his freshman year--one of his most notable performances was that of Louis in "Angels in America"--he had not yet been interviewed by the Crimson. Therefore, after admiring him in the role of Schmendiman in a new Boston production of Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," produced by Edward Eaton and Shawn Elinoff, I asked Adam a few questions...
...feel that you could relate at all to Schmendiman, your character in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile...
...think that Steve Martin wrote it [Picasso at the Lapin Agile] with 20/20 hindsight, of course, looking back on the 20th century. One of the most poignant lines of the play is "Ah, the 20th century, the works of artists and musicians dominated the works of politicians," and that's not necessarily true at all, I don't think that's true at all, but it is very interesting, the lines are definitely crossing, scientists and musicians are becoming as important to culture as the people who shape history, the military, and politicians...