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After intermission, the act "Where's The Beat?" shows just what the performers do best--it takes a sad story of loss, and portray it with a big smile to get the tragic point across with just enough irony. A young and talented kid, played by B. Jason Young, journeys through Hollywood looking for a place to display his talent. In one particularly biting moment, Shirley Temple is parodied as 'da Beat (Derick K. Grant) makes a large stretchable doll dance with Uncle Huck-A-Buck (Dominique Kelley) as she asks him questions like, "Why do I get paid more...
Although Kavanagh's ability to portray the samesubject from many perspectives is practicedthroughout the book, as each characters react tothe weather, the turn of the sea and the creakingiceberg in a different way, his skill is mosthoned in his discussion of the novel's mostpervasive subject; the Roman Catholic Church...
...Amos' passion, you are swept up in the force and energy of the music. "I had explored the girl-at-the-piano thing," she says. "It was time for new territory." Amos has long had some of the most fervid fans in rock--the numerous websites devoted to her portray her less as a rock star than as a religious experience in human form. Her new CD proves her worthy maybe not of abject devotion but certainly praise...
Amid such soaring rhetoric, it was hard to recall just what NATO is: a military alliance. It is about the commitment and deployment of armed forces. The Clinton Administration has done its best to portray it as something else--a political association devoted to institution building. But the Czechs, Hungarians and Poles knew they were applying to an alliance created to oppose Russia, and that's why they wanted to get in. Bill Clinton may think there is a new NATO, but the Central Europeans admit privately that they are joining...
Indeed, Susan was the first character on television to transition (in 1969) from a housewife to a career woman, and more recently to working mother. Long said her character is testament to the show's ability to fairly portray real-life situations for a younger audience...