Word: sawyerism
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...Losers BETTE MIDLER The Divine Miss M's TV show gets canceled, and a $1 million book deal falls through. Where is the wind beneath those wings? TOM SAWYER Snubbed by the Tonys, the Broadway musical closes after 21 shows at an estimated loss of $7.5 million. Guess it's back to painting fences MARCELO RIOS Chilean tennis star arrested after attacking two cops who stopped his overcrowded taxi. Wouldn't give them an autograph, either...
...wish I could say the same for the other new Broadway musical of the spring, "Tom Sawyer." But this kid-friendly adaptation of the Mark Twain story, if not quite the "Saturday Night Live" parody its ubiquitous ads promised ("Hey, Tom Sawyer!"), is a second-rate refugee from summer stock. Don Schlitz has written music with a country twang but cornball lyrics ("He?s full of that old scratch /Impossible to catch"), and the odd, earth-toned sets make this Mississippi River town look like something the Pharoahs built. The show does rev up some lively melodrama in the second...
...Secretary Nina S. Sawyer '01 said more of the groups are proposing joint events. She cited as examples a Southeast Asian cultural night, planned by four or five different cultural groups, as well as a joint event about the African diaspora...
...really excited and encouraged by this," Sawyer said. "These are opportunities for the different groups to focus on their commonalities as well as their unique elements...
...imagines the exile will last long. You can prune Bill Clinton down to a stump and he rises every time from his own ruins. It's happened many times before, it's his motif - death and resurrection. He turns up like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral. "Coriolanus," being a tragedy, had to end in the protagonist's death. Clinton is incapable of tragedy. What he needs is a new project...