Word: toye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Burnett's novel is beloved by girls, although not so much read by boys, and it fittingly has been translated by what is believed to be a Broadway first, an all-female creative team. Producer Heidi Landesman also designed the allegorical, imagistic set, based on a child's toy theater. Director Susan Schulman has laced the narrative with ghosts and wraiths of memory. Composer Lucy Simon blended folk music apt to the Yorkshire locale with art songs fitting the moneyed manor-house setting. Librettist-lyricist Marsha Norman solved the self-containment of the three main characters by making their songs...
Spitz retired, posed for a poster and got on with his life. He seldom swam the length of a pool. Then a couple of years ago, he began to toy with a goofy idea: that he could make the U.S. Olympic team next year and win a medal in his best event, the 100-m butterfly. It is the one men's event in which times haven't dropped dramatically. Pablo Morales, now retired, holds the record of 52.84 sec., and Spitz's '72 time of 54.27 sec. would have put him seventh at the Seoul Olympics. To make...
...mornings. Castro's healthy proclivities are also apparent in her office, which is crammed with thriving plants, Ansel Adams photographs recycled from discarded calendars, baseball trophies and rolls of earth-friendly gift-wrapping paper. Amid the creative clutter on her desk: a bottle of spring water and a Slinky toy. "I use it sometimes to concentrate when I'm writing," Castro explains. "It seems to work. And it's simple...
...Plainfield, N.J., 50 people demonstrated outside police headquarters, charging that a policeman beat Uriah Hannah, a 14-year-old black. Last Sunday Hannah and his friends were playing with a remote-controlled toy car on a sidewalk near his home. A motorist stopped short at the spot where the boys were playing, and a police cruiser ran into the rear of his car. Hannah's parents, whose older son allegedly committed suicide in police custody last year, charged that the officer jumped from his car, accused the teenager of obstructing traffic and at one point tried to choke...
Kilmer is just conventionally good-looking; he can't prowl like Blake's Tyger or pose with the sultry arrogance of a Beat poet. Nor does he have the intellectual seductiveness that made Morrison a toy of the hip literati. In short, Kilmer is not Jim, and his casting denies The Doors the chance to be a meditation on the lure of sexual power. What else can the movie be? Morrison and his band were not political pathfinders, and musically they were close to negligible, with one compelling tune (Light My Fire) and an ambitious, pretentious attitude. The Doors...