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...graceful intricacy of Porter's lyrics, and he moves from Shakespearean verse to comic pratfalls with ease. It would be demeaning to point out that Mitchell has the best posture on Broadway, but there's something about that lean, ramrod-straight bearing that manages to both poke fun at itself and radiate real stage charisma. This new Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway's first since the 1948 original), smashingly directed by Michael Blakemore and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, proves what Ragtime should have: Mitchell is Broadway's first great musical star of the new millennium...
...Resourceful students, however, employ many successful self-alerting techniques. Pierced students admit to pulling on their body jewelry to give themselves wakening jolts of pain. Those without piercings resort to more primitive measures: "I like to take my pen and just poke it into my arm sometimes," boasts Phil H. Chan...
...power: the ease with which they slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. Grownups aren't ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Is Pokemon payback for our get-rich-quick era--with our offspring led away like lemmings by Pied Poke-Pipers of greed? Or is there something inherent in childhood that Pokemania simply reflects...
...from Northeastern University. They're headed to an Angry Salad concert at the Middle East. "What is Angry Salad?" a bystander asks. "Think Counting Crows meets Goo Goo Dolls," one replies. They turn their attention to a man wearing black tie and carrying grocery bags. They prod him, poke him and question him. I change lanes suddenly and the girls fall onto an entertwined high school couple...
...When Bank Boston took an extra $16.42 out of my checking account last month, I saw this as a chance to take a big poke at the Man. I tried to reach Cindy in the Dispatch Department, but since it's only November and Lent is in March, I thought it might be best to head over to the actual bank of Bank Boston. Armed with my receipts and bank statements from the last year (one who fights the Man must always have the necessary documents in hand to prove she is correct), I plunked myself down in front...