Word: welk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first I laughed after reading your item about my husband Bobby Burgess, which labeled him a "Bad Mouseketeer" because he spent 21 years dancing on TV's Lawrence Welk Show [PEOPLE, March 8]. I think you actually meant to include him on your "Good Mouseketeer" list. Bobby joined the Lawrence Welk Show in 1961 and has always been proud of it. The show became a top syndication pioneer in 1982, and reruns can still be seen. Bobby's association with the show is definitely a "good" thing. No, it's more: it's wunnerful! KRISTIE BURGESS, MOUSEKEWIFE Los Angeles
BOBBY BURGESS: Spent 21 years dancing on Lawrence Welk...
...Williams' translation is witty--and the production benefits. Compare the literal Greek of Pentheus' sarcasm (Hos thrasus ho Bakhos, How insolent is this Bacchus!) with Williams' "Bacchic backtalk!" Again in the same scene "Deinos su deinos kapi dein' erkhei pathe (I need a macron)," "You are wonderful, wonderful" (Laurence Welk, anybody?) "And wonderful are the experiences you go to meet" becomes in Williams "You are awe-inspiring. Your outcome will inspire awe." The translation and the production share the great felicity of exaltation in the words themselves...
...canines. It's as if the teenagers who have been standing in a two-mile ticket line for a Foo Fighters concert started buttonholing passing reporters to warn that grunge can lead to poor study habits and might even be a bridge addiction to the music of Lawrence Welk. In a typical radio interview I heard, one authority was going on about how demanding Dalmatians are, and how much hair they shed, and how unlikely it would be for anyone who is not a nationally ranked marathoner to provide them with enough exercise, and how difficult it is for even...
Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...