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...finest institutions for at least a year or two, is absolutely mesmerized and befuddled by the operation of the soft serve machine. There are so many handles! Should I push it down or pull it up? Where exactly do I hold my cone/cup, and how do I twirl it in order to create a swirl? Never mind that this person has inevitably had countless meals and seen endless numbers of people use the machine. Reminiscent of Owen Wilson in Zoolander where he exclaims, “The files are in the computer,” the sounds and flashing lights...
...backstage visit a week before the Dec. 15 opening, co-producer Cameron Mackintosh is helping to wallpaper the theater, which is being refurbished. Richard Eyre, former head of Britain's National Theatre, mutters into a headset, while co-director and choreographer Matthew Bourne adjusts an elbow here, a twirl there. Technicians are honing the effects. "It looks very high tech," says co-producer Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions, "but this show doesn't employ any techniques that haven't been in use for decades." Perhaps, but with flying stunts and a house that appears and disappears, the show...
Okay, so kinda cool, people underestimate me, and I can take advantage of that. I could twirl my hair around my finger and chew my pen and say, “Oh really, ma’am, like, whoa, so who do you think, like, killed him?” and get my story...
...think John Kerry would be better,” he replies with little hesitation and a quick twirl of the ’stache. “George Bush would be too arrogant...[he] wouldn’t have the patience with how much failure it takes to juggle...
November in New York City has its charms. Ice skaters twirl in Central Park, Santa sets up shop at Radio City and department stores unfurl their holiday finery. But to Delia Everett, November meant a chilly wait for the 6:45 a.m. bus to her Manhattan job as an executive assistant. To her husband Jim, who had lost his job as a steam fitter, it meant fixing heaters and patching plumbing in their Mahwah, N.J., apartment building, where he worked as assistant super to cover the rent. To their two children, it meant gray afternoons watching TV in their...