Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this latest incarnation of Sanders--thesophisticated elder statesman--that one would haveanticipated at the Regattabar. But the spirit ofthe 1970's seemed to resurge while the Sandersgroup was here, and, with the exception of onelovely version of the ballad "It's Easy ToRemember," the entire set consisted of the sort ofeasily digestable yet funky vamps that one couldcall "Crowd-pleasures...
...faith in the students here at Quincy. I think they will be pretty responsible. I don't think anyone will be falling off the boat," said Quincy House Committee Chair Candace M. Hom '96, when asked if she feared for the safety of house residents on board the Spirit of Boston, the site of their May 6 formal...
...April 26 NVA forces had surrounded Saigon. That night ex-President Thieu was persuaded to leave while he still could; Ambassador Martin organized a group of cars to spirit him out of the city to Tan Son Nhut. Snepp, who went along on the ride, half expected Thieu and his American escorts to be hauled out of their cars and shot at some checkpoint by ARVN soldiers incensed at being abandoned. Nothing happened, but the little caravan took the precaution of racing onto the air base with lights out and braking to a skidding stop alongside a runway. Thieu...
...phantasmagorical costumes by Theoni Aldredge (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls). Among the contributors to its original score is, well, Don Grady, whose first eminence was as the hunkiest of Fred MacMurray's three TV sons but who now writes lush, hummable ballads. Finally, EFX has that cosmic expanse of spirit, that lift of a driving dream, that wily, woozy pretentiousness, that have marked the boffo Broadway musical ever since Cats crept into town nearly 13 years...
What the boy will make of this extraordinary history is hard to say. His stepfather has been, variously and with high spirit, a U.S. fighter pilot shot down in the Mediterranean in World War II, a billionaire, an ex-billionaire, a bank robber, a wholehearted lover of women, a convicted killer while still a teenager and, as a result of that, an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium during his high school years. But what he has been most consistently, through all the splendidly entertaining capers and calamities that Helprin invents for him, is what people call, in short...