Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Garth Drabinsky didn't go to the Tony Awards this year, even though two of his musicals, Parade and Fosse, were among the night's big winners. He didn't watch the show on TV either--too painful--though he caught a clip of it on the news up in Toronto. There was Roy Furman, the Wall Street banker in charge of the company Drabinsky had built, accepting the Best Musical award for Fosse, the show Drabinsky had nurtured, and thanking, vaguely, "the people in Toronto who were so helpful in starting this show." For Drabinsky, the "revisionism" is what...
...wife and her sister aboard, the morbid thought of their last minutes, the aching sadness of it all, the archival film footage of the children romping at the White House and the little boy's salute and all the mawkish elegies on television, it was a comfort finally to watch the U.S.S. Briscoe raise anchor and put out to sea Thursday morning with the ashes and the families of the dead on board...
...with a smile as brittle and quivery as the crust on a creme brulee). They're looking for not just love but also victory, over male entitlement, over a culture that despises older single women and over myths they can't compete with. In a pointed scene, the four watch a video in which a woman climaxes two seconds into a sex scene. "No wonder men are so lost," Miranda says. "They have no idea there's more work involved." City is a fantasy, yes--few viewers will ever access its designer-clad uptown monde--but it's as real...
Cronin and Kennedy describe the movement to save the Hudson in The Riverkeepers, published by Simon & Schuster (website: www.riverkeeper.org) Today 23 U.S. Riverkeepers watch over lakes, creeks, ponds and bays from Long Island Sound to Cook Inlet in Alaska, and the first Canadian keeper program began last month on the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick...
...fish for shad, you go out two hours before high tide, but every day the hours change. One week you're having breakfast at 7 a.m., the next at 2 in the afternoon. And all this extends to life on the shore, to the people who come down to watch the boats come in. The whole community participates in the rhythms of the river...