Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when Broadway's musical well has run so dry that recycled revues like It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues and Fosse compete for Tonys, it comes as a pleasant shock to realize that Stephen Sondheim has had an unproduced show in his trunk for more than 40 years. The young composer wrote Saturday Night in the mid-'50s, but a planned Broadway opening was scuttled when the producer died. It was mounted for the first time by a small company in London in 1997. Now Chicago's Pegasus Players has given the musical (with two new songs added...
...outrage and grief naturally dispose us to seek something to blame and, if possible, to eradicate it with all the force and vengeance we can muster. But we ought to pause before we let the axe of our sorrow strike a blow at the trunk of our constitution...
...meet our ride outside 14 Plympton at 11 p.m. on Sunday night. It's a BMW 5-series, all-leather interior, CD-carriage in the trunk. A pleasant surprise. Next we meet our driver. It's Daniel, a 5'3" Asian-American boy with wire-rim glasses and a mouth full of orthodontic gear. He's a friend of a friend. As we watch him empty his back seat of miscellaneous papers, books and WWF action figures, we wonder--the first of many such doubts--what the hell we are doing. "Daniel," Aaron asks, "How many car accidents have...
...wind along with a steady rain. We cling to the pawn shop window, taking shelter under its awning. Josh, who has brought along a change of clothes in order to avoid pre-audition wrinkling, decides that it is time to get dressed. We remove his garment bag from the trunk, and Aaron and I acting his valets, Josh strips to his skivvies. A homeless man whistles his approval...
...have harbored were crushed last week when authorities found the burned-out Pontiac Grand Prix that had been rented by Gina's mother Carole Sund, 42, for a holiday trip to Yosemite National Park with her daughter Julie, 15, and Silvina Pelosso, 16, a friend from Argentina. Opening the trunk of the charred wreck, hidden 100 yds. off a remote highway, law-enforcement officials discovered two bodies. By week's end, the victims had not yet been identified nor the cause of death released. There was some speculation that the blaze was so intense, a third body may have been...