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...times, 1776 forgets it's a musical and devotes an unsung half-hour to the great questions of the day: How can we get idealistic, insufferable John Adams (Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) to shut up? Will Thomas Jefferson (Paul Michael Valley) have sex in time to write his masterpiece? And would Benjamin Franklin (the benign curmudgeon Pat Hingle) please invent air conditioning--right away? It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago. Come as a skeptic, choose favorite Founding...
Berners-Lee is the unsung--or at least undersung--hero of the information age. Even by some of the less breathless accounts, the World Wide Web could prove as important as the printing press. That would make Berners-Lee comparable to, well, Gutenberg, more or less. Yet so far, most of the wealth and fame emanating from the Web have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year...
Deng Xiaoping was a legendary man of transcendent genius whose accomplishments far outweighed his mistakes. Under his leadership, the Chinese people embarked on a gigantic modernization program and miraculously increased their productivity. Deng was an unsung hero in the battle to bury world communism. He challenged Marxist orthodoxy head on. His bold reforms triggered a chain reaction all across the communist world and set the stage for the decommunization of the Soviet bloc. JOHNNY Z.Y. WU Morrow, Georgia...
...face up to what I might have wrought. It was possible that some completely innocent sales rep, flying from New York to Chicago as part of an unsung but fundamentally noble effort to support his deserving family, was suffering agonizing hunger pangs because I had made an offhand remark in an uncharacteristic moment of revulsion...
...just thought we had to do something to honor all of the unsung Oriental dancers in this country...