Word: pippin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show that sealed Fosse's reputation as the most gifted musical-comedy director of his generation. Not bad for a self-doubting perfectionist who, even though he was the only person ever to win an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy in the same season (in 1973, for Cabaret, Pippin and Liza with a "Z"), never quite managed to shake off the nagging suspicion that he was merely a purveyor of glitzy trash...
...apparel, Nike is attempting to turn sweatshirts and shorts into real athletic equipment that it calls "total performance product." Its fabric is skinlike, a point being made by a series of ads that feature pictures of such star athletes as Michael Johnson, Scotty Pippin and Gabrielle Reece wearing not so much as a sock...
Admittedly, I am not the best qualified theater critic on campus. If I remember correctly, the last campus show I actually attended was a shaky production of "Pippin" in the Dunster House dining hall my freshman year. Its simple sets and weak acting reminded me of the production of the show that had gone up in my high school just one year before. I decided immediately that I would not be a Harvard theater junkie...
...kick in. Within minutes my mouth dried up, as if I had swallowed a handful of cotton balls. Water and chewing gum soon solved that problem. Then halfway through Letterman, around the time of my nightly kitchen crawl, something peculiar happened. I zoomed in on a bowl of green pippin apples, fixating on their aesthetic beauty more than their sweet taste. I stared at them intensely, then decided I wasn't hungry after all. Instead, I sipped some cranberry juice and somehow felt satisfied...
...capable. Sony and Philips, for example, are licensing set-top technology from WebTV Networks, a company partly financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Sega and Nintendo, meanwhile, are adding Internet capability to their video-game machines, and this fall Apple is expected to market its long-delayed Pippin computer as a $600 Web-browsing set-top box that also plays Macintosh CD-ROMs...