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...line after line with a thick red pen,shaking her head in disapproval. My mechanics, shesaid, were a mess. This was perfectly true;semicolons were my downfall. After glancing at thesecond page, she handed the essay back to me, andinquired if I was taking Expository Writing. No, Iresponded, growing meeker by the minute, I'd beenexempt. My answer did not sit well with her, andshe expressed grave displeasure. Where exactly didI transfer form?, she inquired. the AmericanCollege of Singapore, I answered, Well, Idefinitely needed to take Expose, she said, and itwas imperative I go to the writing center before Iever...
...offers a virtual oratorio of embarrassment. His father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later he would realize he had a great subject in this gray world. It begged for a wit that evokes nostalgia and distress, and Bennett became its not-quite-lyric...
David Murin's costumes and Rogers Meeker's lighting ably round out the rest of this production's design. Murin sticks mostly to standard Victorian fare but produces some remarkable effects with it, most notably Algernon's dressing gown and the sublime hats worn by Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell in the first act. Meerker's lighting is particularly notable in the second act, when the garden appears infused with sunshine...
...loyalty of his clan: several dozen relatives held jobs on the payroll. Third, Newhouse ardently avoided publicity and, above all, controversy. He kept so low a profile that he could walk unrecognized through his own newsrooms. Maybe the only thing he touted was his height: although biographer Richard Meeker says he was 5 ft. 2 in., Newhouse claimed a full inch more...
When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...