Word: wonka
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DIED. ANTHONY NEWLEY, 67, showman; of cancer; in Jensen Beach, Fla. He co-wrote, directed and starred in the 1962 hit musical Stop the World--I Want to Get Off and helped write the Goldfinger theme and the score for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Newley was married three times, once to actress Joan Collins...
...contents of the $1.2 billion structure, revealed this week, include a 170-foot hollow sculpture of an androgynous human figure -- which visitors will enter at waist level and leave via the right leg -- and a ?dreamscape? across which visitors can travel on boats shaped like beds. Notwithstanding such Willy Wonka-esque attractions, many Brits remain skeptical. The rest of us will just have to live with our dome envy...
Those words, "a job," really creep me out. Imean, I'm no stranger to the workforce: I'veworked at pretty much every ice cream parlor inthe Boston area at one time or another, and I'veassisted a strange Willy Wonka-esque financialwizard during my years at Harvard. But these jobswere rarely that time-consuming, and my paychecksonly went towards expenses of my own devising: mycrack habit, expensive hair products, etc. Ihaven't been paying my tuition bills, you see. Itake things like heat and electricity for granted:some guy shows up every few months and putzesaround my family's basement...
...Willy Wonka booth, a magician dressed asthe mythical chocolate factory owner entertainedpassersby. Wonka representative Richard Gower saidhis company's newest venture is "Radical Red andBoppin' Blue Razzberry Nerds...
...Willy Wonka Theory. Okay, so the candy recipes are top secret. Not only that, but I'm not supposed to see any Oompa Loompa guys running around because I'll report Necco for violating child labor laws...