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...Modern audiences expect more of a plot, and the books have to be extensively rewritten, with dated jokes carefully excised. The editing has to be judicious, however, so that the show's spirit is retained. In Johnny Jones, for example, Adapter Alfred Uhry wisely kept Cohan's quaint jingoism. "You think I'd marry an heiress and live off her money?" asks Johnny (Thomas Hulce), a jockey who is in love with one. "What do you take me for? An Englishman?" And: "French pastry ain't worth 30? compared to American apple...
...taping session went into extra innings, but Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays still couldn't get to first base. Not as singers, not as sit-down comics, and certainly not as models. Looking quaint in dainty bonnets for a margarine commercial, the two ex-sluggers made like they were still on opposing teams in the World Series of 1951 and 1962, when Mickey was a Yankee and Willie a Giant. In between takes of the Blue Bonnet jingle, Mays needled Mantle: "You sing worse than I do." "You gotta be kidding," Mickey replied. "You call that singing what...
...least what idiocy he has perpetrated. And what idiocy he has not. One frustrating day, when nothing goes right for the luckless Perrin, he decides to leave town, to remove his boyish good looks and soccer talent from the clutches of the petit-bourgeois burghers of Trincamp, a quaint French ville whose occupants lust for a national soccer championship. But before Perrin can escape, the local cops nab him for a rape he didn't commit...
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea for the U.S. to become independent of foreign oil. But each Senator spoke only to a nearly empty chamber. Their colleagues dozed on cots in darkened conference rooms or in their otherwise vacant offices. This was the Senate's first all-night filibuster since 1978, an effort to prevent...
Welcome to our quaint town. Hope you like the construction, which, you might want to know, will continue until (gasp) 1984. But while some are here for four years, you are here for a few days. So you may want to sample a slice of Cambridge life. Or a slice of pizza...