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...Chorus Line,” with music by Marvin Hamlisch and a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, originally opened on Broadway in 1975. The show takes place over the course of a dance audition for a Broadway show, and it is founded on a neat bit of irony: the dancers on-stage are playing themselves. They actually had to go through a Broadway audition so that they could pretend to be going through a Broadway audition.Take the show out of Broadway, and you take the cool, meta-theatrical knick-knacks out of the show. This loss of irony...
...Tesseron finishes his tour of the Château Pontet-Canet, which is perched on a hill above the legendary Bordeaux wine village of Pauillac. He has talked proudly about how his father bought the château 30 years ago. He has driven his electric cart along the neat rows of vines and pointed out some of his big recent investments: the state-of-the-art water recycling[an error occurred while processing this directive] system, the new storage and bottling barn and the twin rows of conical fermentation vats. Now comes the moment of truth. Standing...
...Maybe I'm asking for too much when I expect him to be bold on the issues, I suggest. Maybe my expectations for him are too high? "No, no," he says, and returns for a third time to energy policy--to Gore's tax-swap idea. "It's a neat idea. I'm going to call Gore and have a conversation about it. It might be something I'd want to embrace...
...little of that. But the amazing thing about the show (Bennett's conception, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante's book, Ed Kleban's smart lyrics) is how seamlessly dance, song and story work together to keep everything alive, emotional and involving. Some of the revelations emerge in neat individual numbers (I Can Do That); others in fuguelike bits and pieces, linked thematically by song (Hello 12, Hello 13). Some numbers revel in the group-grope insecurities we all share (I Hope I Get It); others in brassy satire very particular to the showbiz world (Dance 10, Looks 3 - which...
...following: putting ads in front of their video content and jointly serving the resulting product off third-party sites, which is a huge distribution network for us. So you notice that each one of them is the leader in their category and wanted to do something that was really neat, really innovative from the standpoint of the end-user. Each of them solved a new problem...