Word: pia
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...classic routines from the movie which have been adapted into film, jokes which I have had memorized for upwards of ten years and which would be far too dorky to repeat here. Suffice it to say that the lesser-known Michael Siberry (as King Arthur), Richard Holmes (Lancelot), and Pia Glenn (Lady of the Lake) carry on the coconut-smashing, French-bashing, killer-rabbit-avoiding tradition of old. If there is a single big-production, high-profile show to be seen in Boston this season, it is certainly “Spamalot.” It’s everything...
...proclaimed the glowing critique, "the range, expert intonation, a sensitive feeling for the lyrics and enough dynamic variety to preclude the danger of overkill." A concert by Barbra Streisand? How about Pia Zadora? Yes, Pia Zadora, who confesses that she went out and bought five copies of the rave by Los Angeles Times Critic Leonard Feather, "hoping they wouldn't print a retraction." They didn't, and in the ensuing three months Zadora's U.S. concert tour has radically improved her image: cinema's laughingstock has suddenly blossomed into a serious singer of such pop classics...
...Guatemala, Mr. T, a new novel by Bellow; Dow Jones goes down, Columbia goes up. Say hey, Willie McCovey, you made it too. Nice hat, Mrs. Gorbachev. Hold it, please. I have to think. Didn't I read something by Octavio Paz that fits in here? Or was it Pia Zadora? Where is my authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson. You have to sound as if you knew it all along. You have to shape your column too--mostly Doric, a Corinthian fluting...
...store owners in the malls are unhappy. "It's been a mixed reaction for shopkeepers here," says Daman Sarna, mall manager for Sahara Mall. He points out that the supermarket in his mall is doing good business, although he admits that some of the store owners might not be. Pia Singh, director of DLF Universal, a real estate firm that plans to build 18-20 malls in northern India over the next few years, says stores in the City Centre Mall, which her company opened in Gurgaon in late 2002, are making profits, adding, "That's what gives...
...Pia S. Desai...