Word: stanley
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Returning to hockey for a moment, the NHL has been underway for about two weeks. It feels like the New Jersey Devils just won the Stanley Cup. For all of hockey's numerous virtues, it needs to reconsider the length of its regular season. The extended playoff format already renders most of the previous play irrelevant, so knocking off 10 games couldn't hurt. Of course, I would also like Commissioner Gary Bettman to knock off at least 5 teams. Sorry, Nashville...
...daughter behind, in the title track; the weary resignation of a couple at the end of their rope in "What Do We Do Now," told in the attenuated vocabulary of those who have already talked something to death; the unvarnished testimonial of the old-timey blues eulogy "Mr. Stanley...
Derek Lowe characterized the Red Sox as one "big dysfunctional family." After witnessing the Everett saga, he never seemed more right. This season has not been pretty--from starting pitchers' anger about being pulled early by Williams to the abrupt departures of Mike Stanley and Jeff Frye. But Duquette reached a new low by publicly backing one of his players over his manager...
...DIED. STANLEY TURRENTINE, 66, soulful blues-based tenor saxophonist whose 1970 crossover hit, Sugar, inspired today's "smooth jazz"; of a stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...
...interesting features of summer theatre is the overlap within the individual productions. Senior Jay Chaffin transformed from a condemned Spaniard-with-a-song-in-his-heart into a gambling New Orleans philanderer; Ari Appel '03, the guitarist in La Mancha's orchestra, took a turn across the boards as Stanley in Streetcar. Dan Cozzens '03, in a rather peculiar instance of ethnic globalization, went from Russian to Mexican in a matter of weeks...