Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peruvian commandos waited all night under the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, hunkered down in a winding, steel-braced tunnel complex. Loaded down with weapons, ammunition and body armor, they still had enough room to rest and try to sleep. The tunnels were the work of professional miners, and the troops could walk upright, two abreast, through lighted and ventilated chambers. In the morning, after a final planning session, their officers slipped through nearby buildings and into the tunnels to join the 140 army, navy and air-force special-operations forces underground for the attack. Lieut. Colonel Juan Valer...
...Steel Pier, by contrast, has been carried to Broadway by far more favorable winds. It has a score by Kander and Ebb--once again toasts of the town, thanks to the hit revival of their 1975 show, Chicago--and a premise that seems made to order for the team and for talented choreographer Susan Stroman: a 1930s dance marathon in Atlantic City. The show is cannily mounted, bouncy and often tuneful, professional all the way. Yet it's still a disappointment...
...period artifice, however, keeps us at arm's length from the material (beware of any show in which one character calls another "Flyboy"). The ersatz-'30s numbers are pleasant but forgettable, although Debra Monk, as a marathon veteran, puts across a saucy showstopper, Everybody's Girl. Mostly, however, Steel Pier just seems tinny...
...would not have understood unless I had luckily taken Foreign Cultures 56: "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Before 1914" this semester. After all, would any Joe Schmoe know what a shtetl is? As for the jokes, the one I still could not figure out is the line, "Bushes are steel...
...only to get ready but also to work out. Because I'm going to do what I do every year--sit down in front of a TV and watch the first round. All seven hours. Not only do you have to flatten your derriere (I recommend "Buns of Steel") so you can sit for extended periods of time, you'll also be eating seven hours worth of junk food...