Word: slews
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With the departure of Crockett and a slew of other starting pitchers, Hendricks may also be critical on the mound. Despite his prep heroics, the lefty never really emerged as a pitcher during his first two seasons...
...expected. Now there's that inconvient war in Iraq, which is distracting theatergoers and depressing the tourist business once again. You know times are tough on Broadway when "Urban Cowboy", the spring's big new musical (at the Broadhurst Theater), got scared out of its boots by a slew of tepid reviews and announced it would close just days after opening. The producers later changed their mind, and the show is now trying to make a go of it - but imagine what all this must do for morale in the chorus line...
...year-old actor-director conceived of the idea for City of Ghosts in the early 1990s while vacationing in Southeast Asia, where he met a slew of grizzled expatriates with shady pasts. Later, an International Herald Tribune story about felons hiding out in Cambodia due to its lack of extradition treaties further sparked his imagination. Working with writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows...
...friend at the hotel. He went for treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital and is believed to be the first link in the chain leading to most of the territory's 200-plus infections. With so many cases concentrated in Hong Kong, travel agents are reporting a slew of cancellations by tourists who had been planning to travel to the territory. Other stricken nations are also running scared: many students in Vietnam are staying home from school because parents are fearful of exposing them to the disease...
...form a strong association, Harvard can come in and ask us what we need and what we want,” she said in response to tenants’ calls for a slew of possible amenities in a new complex, ranging from better parking and new washing machines to even making Charlesview II larger than Charlesview I, which has 213 apartments...