Word: sellout
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...Nathan Lane Broadway?s greatest star ever? You could make the argument. With him hamming it up as theatrical impresario Max Bialystock, The Producers is a sellout smash; with anybody else in the role, it?s just another struggling Broadway musical. If he takes a liking to a project - a revival of Butley, say, which he starred in last year in Boston - it is immediately eyed as a possible candidate for Broadway. And if he wants to revive a little-known Stephen Sondheim musical - and not just star in it, but rewrite the thing too - darned...
...economy and other things, to its member states." Blair came to office determined to put Britain "at the heart of Europe," but his loyalty to George W. Bush's Iraq policy has damaged his ability to push ahead on his European policies. Determined not to be labeled a sellout by British Euro-skeptics, he packaged his work in Brussels as a series of valiant sorties to preserve British sovereignty. Pro-E.U. pundits in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy assailed Blair for watering down the pact. "The greatest paradox of the European Union," said Le Figaro, "is that its most...
...capacity for the concert, and all along this tour the duo has played to sellout audiences. In the hours before the show Barlow milled about the club, signing posters and having a few drinks. He strikes an imposing image: clad in a suit-jacket, tall, with Elvis Costello glasses, the presence of the elder statesman of indie rock that he is. But the minute he stepped on stage, with the simple phrase “Welcome back,” he became the rock avatar of years past, shedding his suit coat for a conservative gray T-shirt with...
...that point, it seemed as if expectations for this year’s attendance following up on last year’s rowdy sellout who witnessed the pinnacle of women’s hockey...
...these, the record is a compromise easily made. Most of the tracks feature only Darnielle and his guitar and when a song is heavily produced, such as the stunning, piano-laden “No Children,” the song is so good that to complain about the sellout hi-fi rendering would be pointless. Songs as well-written as these shine through no matter how they’re produced...