Word: twist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This show is sure to be two snaps, a twist and a kiss. David Alan Grier of In Living Color's Men on Film fame struts his stand-up at the Comedy Connection. And we guarantee he's nicer than Al Franken. Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall. 248-9700. 8 p.m., 10:15 p.m. $21. Also Saturday...
...most revivifying part of the show is Peters, who gives the brassy Merman role an adorable new twist. At the start she lays on the backwoods accent so thick you have to laugh, yet when she pines and pouts for Frank, she gives the character a funny, foot-stamping girlishness. There are some miscalculations. The device of framing the story as a show within a show--introduced by Buffalo Bill--gains nothing, and opening with the big number There's No Business Like Show Business is a needless appetizer. It's not as if Berlin's matchless songs--Doin' What...
...morning of the first day of the exam, April 12, 1790, a group of students dropped 600 grains of tartar emetic into the cooking boilers in the kitchen. When the 150-plus crowd of students and officers showed up for breakfast, their coffee included water with that special twist. With the exception of four or five people, everyone turned ill, including the students behind the plot, who had drunk extra coffee in order to avoid getting caught. Unfortunately for them, they had taken pains, literally, for no reason. They were caught and suspended for their actions...
...morning of the first day of the exam, April 12, 1790, a group of students dropped 600 grains of tartar emetic into the cooking boilers in the kitchen. When the 150-plus crowd of students and officers showed up for breakfast, their coffee included water with that special twist. With the exception of four or five people, everyone turned ill, including the students behind the plot, who had drunk extra coffee in order to avoid getting caught. Unfortunately for them, they had taken pains, literally, for no reason. They were caught and suspended for their actions...
...latest twist in one of the most enduring controversies in college sports, the NCAA today will seek to block the ruling while it prepares an appeal, Elsa Cole, NCAA general counsel, said yesterday. She expects a response on a request for a stay of the order "within...