Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second half of the play takes place 36 years later and deals with the ramifications of the divorce. This strongly female centered section of the musical addresses the problems of Judys who are divorced, widowed, never married or alone by choice...
...showed a section on the presidents of defunct savings and loans and where they...
...close Yankee observer, Sister Marguerite, says, "He cares about winning, but he also cares about people." Sister Marguerite is the longtime principal of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in the Ozone Park section of Queens, and last Thursday was a special day at the school--the kids could wear casual, i.e., Yankee, clothes instead of their usual uniforms. There was a local TV-news crew milling about, and Sister Marguerite called out, "Who wants to be a celebrity? Channel 9 is outside...
...turns out, Capt'n Neato-Man ("All the good superhero names were taken") put the ad in the paper to find his sidekick, Horatio. "We put it in the secretarial section to throw off the commies," he confides. His mother is on the lookout for something else altogether, but Larry resists both of them; he's looking for a real job, having been fired from McDonald's ("The epitome of the American Dream!" breathe the Captain and his mother), and he's waiting for his true love to come along...
...small item of proof is the New York Times's "Vows" feature in the weddings-and-engagements section on Sundays. Once this section was a cathedral of boring probity; brides appeared to be photographed in wax, and weddings were reported as the cornerstone layings on national monuments. Now the "Vows" feature (the name itself suggests something ironic and tenuous) describes weddings that sound like the Ritz Brothers' movies, and the happy couple are sometimes photographed in such a way as to indicate that they will go directly from the altar to a mental hospital...