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After the tidal wave of books with advice for working mothers a few years ago, it was only a matter of time before the male version emerged. Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers by John Evans (Avon) leads the charge with advice directed at the father who wants to take part in parenting without giving up his career. Evans, a psychotherapist, sees Marathon Man as the natural partner of Super Mom: "another breathless man trying to juggle the demands of a full-time career and hands-on, involved parenting in a two-working-parent home...
...Berklee [College of Music] since his guitar was now in better tune than before he passed it to them. Continuing with the college theme, Linnell then introduced the next song as a "song in the same key [as the last one] for all you Berklee students." A spirited version of the classic "Birdhouse In Your Soul" followed, to the delight of the crowd...
...fellow man were explained in Apollo 18's song "Mammal." Our glorious 11th president was immortalized in "James K. Polk," an upbeat song in which confetti was dispersed over the crowd by a gigantic cannon. The end of the regular set saw a punked-out and speeded-up version of "Why Does The Sun Shine (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent...
...play about parents and, more specifically, about in-laws. The differences between Bette and Boo's parents and their very different senses of familial responsibility provide Durang with endless amounts of comic fuel. Karen MacDonald (playing Margaret Brennan, Bette's mother) stomps across the stage as a wildly exaggerated version of an over-domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents...
...first-year version of "Singled Out" wassomewhat more sheltered. Competitors were askedwhether their ideal dates would be short or tall,what sort of transportation they would take to aformal, and what their perfect spring breaks wouldbe...