Word: roundabouts
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...surprise delight, She Loves Me, was far from a guaranteed hit. During its initial run, in a season dominated by Hello, Dolly! and Funny Girl, it failed to recoup its investment. "And then it sat on the shelf for 30 years," says Todd Haimes, artistic director of the nonprofit Roundabout Theater, which mounted the show for a summer run of a couple of months, during which it turned into a runaway hit and a commercial transfer. A key factor: ecstatic reviews from this generation of critics, who are unaccustomed to the musical bounty that greeted their predecessors three decades...
...know how long we could survive without him," in tones that suggest the likely duration would be a day and a half. While season subscribers have fallen from 27,000 the opening year to about 18,000 today, that is competitive with the 23,000 for the much older Roundabout, a nonprofit Broadway company that favors more contemporary, commercial work...
...four months, Doug figures, he's done nine drive-by shootings, aiming mostly at cars and houses. "It's basically revenge, that sort of thing," he says. Like when he shot five times at a truck that belonged to the boyfriend of a judge's daughter -- a roundabout response to the judge's conviction of several of his friends for various offenses. "I'm not actually aiming at anybody," he says. "But once my older brother missed a baby's head by a quarter of an inch. It was in all the news...
...there's nothing tragic about taking a roundabout route to your destination (although it has been cold outside). And there's nothing unusual about yet another film that puts Harvard in the spotlight (although this movie doesn't sound like the most accurate representation of undergraduate life...
...more ironic moments I imagine all the paper we environmental do gooders struggle to recycle going to some chucking entrepreneur who uses it to print up thousands of Square Deals. In that case, the paper has simply taken a more roundabout route to the trash...