Word: outcasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing pains. And parents want to believe their love can wipe away the rest. But a series of recent books has roiled the waters and caused parents to wonder anew whether they can ward off the ill effects of getting in with "the wrong crowd"--or becoming an outcast...
...therefore I should love it. But, that gets hard to believe that when I am always the only one of my friends that isn't asked to school dances. I mean, I like dancing solo better, but I am beginning to feel like a social outcast. Part of me keeps reminding myself that I wouldn't want to go to the dance with a boy that didn't like me for who I am, but it gets kind of depressing staying home and dancing with my younger brother. Do you think I should just suck...
...problem for each woman is that for now, her strength in Washington State is her weakness in Washington, D.C. Murray is playing softball in a game where they always throw at your head, and Smith's militant independence makes her an outcast in her own party. But to their credit, neither is going to change anytime soon...
...expect them to be arrested in their physical development at about age five. But that's Simon Birch (Ian Michael Smith) for you: mascot, moral and intellectual nudge, best friend to Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), who because of his illegitimate birth is a more conventional kind of outcast in their small New England town. Simon, whose tale was suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, is convinced that a heroic destiny awaits him. How he attains that improbable yet inspirational end, through a chain of mix-ups, mishaps and coincidences of the kind only a perversely playful...
...shifted from northern England to 1950s Louisiana, which allows the mostly British cast--particularly the children--to offer up some of the weirdest Southern accents ever heard on stage. Yet the clash of Bible Belt bigotry and Elvis-era rebellion provides a credible framework for the parable about an outcast's redemption, and Whistle Down the Wind is more emotionally accessible and musically alive than anything Lloyd Webber has done in a long while...