Word: wee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite all his heroics in New England high school and in intercollegiate play, Young claims that his greatest hockey thrill came in a pee-wee tournament, when he was 12 years...
...competing in the Pee Wee International Tournament in Quebec for a Boston-based team not among the tournament favorites...
Harvard found itself in a peculiar situation Saturday. It was too good. A little late-game restraint was in order because the starting unit--particularly Tony Hi and Tom Yohe on offense and Frank Caprio on defense--had rolled over Dartmouth as if it were a pee-wee team. Or Columbia...
...stand-up, then bash himself with a club, he would be accused of doing shtick. It is ever thus. At the movies, comedy may be king at the wickets, and most of Hollywood's nouveau novas -- Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Pee-wee Herman, Martin Short -- may have won their early stardom cadging laughs on TV or in the burgeoning comedy-club scene (see following story). Yet the Motion Picture Academy continues to lay laurels on lesser mortals whose roles require that they cry over the phone, commit suicide or speak with...
...result of Mackintosh's invitation to Sondheim and Librettist James Goldman to "have a wee think" about revamping the show, the pair has come up with four new songs and a completely new book. According to a program note by the creators, "scarcely a line of dialogue remains from the original." The central story of two couples, old friends, who married the wrong partners used to end in nervous breakdowns for some of them; it now closes with self- understanding and at least hints of reconciliation. What felt in 1971 like a put-down of old-fashioned musicals for their...