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Reinhard led the Crimson in 13 offensive categories. In the addition to her bat, she saved the Crimson many runs with her slick glove...
...night show on the Fox network; Sightings, a weekly syndicated program currently seen on 205 stations; and The Extraordinary, another syndicated show carried on 114 stations. NBC's long-running Unsolved Mysteries, which generally deals with crimes and disappearances, is delving more frequently into the paranormal. Meanwhile, Fox's slick, high-rated The X-Files gives its fictional tales of the supernatural a whiff of authenticity by framing them as cases from a unit of the fbi that investigates paranormal phenomena...
...resplendent memories of his wife (who, to make the comparison all the more pointed and painful, died giving birth to Catherine). Reared in an atmosphere of genteel censure, Catherine only gradually surmises that "no one has ever loved me in my life." When love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney)--she comes to realize that if there is a choice between two forms of counterfeit affection, a cash-based passion may be superior to a condescending paternalism. The Heiress is a play of bleak and haunting subtleties...
...despite its somewhat saccharine rags-to-riches plot. I love the way Henry Higgins bombards Liza with continuously more inventive insults, to which she can only respond "coo" and look offended. I still think that "bedraggled guttersnipe" is the height of wit. Henry Higgins has that I'm-too-slick-for-words-but-I-fall-for-women-from- the-underclass kind of style that I find admirable in middle-aged linguists...
...peeling gold paint and rows of bare bulbs seem to portend a long evening at the Emerson Majestic Theater. Like the theater's facade, much of Leonard Bernstein's music has not weathered the thirty-odd years since its premiere as well as it might. But the verve and slick packaging of the Boston Lyric's production keep the show afloat, and prove that the company can hold its own in the world of American musical theater...