Word: phantoms
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...suitewas not exactly conducive to broadening one'ssocial horizons. Christopher firmly believed inbeing asocial as a way of life, except when itcame to women. His high school girlfriend was alsoat Harvard and, until they started having troublelater in the fall, I barely knew who he was. Wecalled him the phantom roommate. Takashi mainlydid his own thing. and then there was Bigley. Kenwas a special case. he really struggled hisfirstyear--spent most of his time in the roomhunched over the desk, springing up to lookthrough the eyehole every time he heard somethingin the hall...
...locals, or kelpers as they call themselves, have gained far more than they have lost. In the mid-1980s, the British government spent $1 billion to build a military base on the main island of East Falkland, where 2,000 troops are now garrisoned along with five Phantom fighter-bombers. London also earmarked more than $54 million for a development program that so far has furnished the islands with an improved water system, a new hospital and their first graded road, 35 miles long. At the same time, residents were encouraged to buy plots of land previously controlled by large...
...doubt because the Milosevic regime has installed in their midst an enormous military and police apparatus and imposed a state of emergency. But below the surface, resistance has been building. In defiance of the Serbian government, the underground Albanian leadership plans to hold clandestine parliamentary elections for the phantom republic this week...
...York Times to the cover of New York magazine and even network TV. For the first time in years, the most coveted ticket is not to one of the big British musicals that disgruntled Yanks term "the chandelier show," "the helicopter show," "the barricades show" and "the felines show" (Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Cats). Local sages have credited Guys and Dolls with a role in everything from reviving musical comedy and Broadway as a whole to renewing public faith in the city and its mayor. In these extravagant formulations, Guys and Dolls is more than...
IMPRESARIO CAMERON MACKINTOSH made his millions (150 or so of them, in dollar terms) producing musicals of high tech, high technique and high seriousness -- Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He was just out for a night on the town with friends in Britain when he saw a jumping, jiving cabaret revue. It could not have been further from Mackintosh's customary taste. He favors life-and-death storytelling; Five Guys Named Moe is a wisp of a tale about a drunken lowlife cleaning up his act and winning back his lady love with...