Archive: Arts & Entertainment

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Weiss N. Heimer

COMMINGLE:  I can't see why a single M wouldn't do the job, but I love to hate this word.  My Institute for the Linguistically Impaired patients who use this usually suffer from coconspirator as well.

But some of my more alert patients refer me to a certain dictionary that deserves to go unnamed, and unsold, which compounds the redundancy with a redundant definition: "to mix together."  The editors may be having a little joke, but "a little bit pregnant" used to be a joke, too.  The gullible just don't get it.

We love to be redundant about combining people, ingredients, or anything else.  Maybe we're insecure?  When I expound upon this theory, our Institute psychologist, Dr. Viva Palaver, really gets on my case, so I'll skip to some examples: intermix, interlink, intermingle, interrelate, interweave, and conjoin.

Dr. Parley Speake, referring to linguistically impaired people's belief that longer words sound better because they're longer, has a label for this condition that fits: polysyllabificationitis.

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The first musical of the Hangar Theatre's 35th season will be Once On This Island, performing June 18 through July 4. The original Broadway production of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musical received eight Tony Award nominations including Best Musical, Book, and Score. Soulful song and dance inspired by African-Caribbean rhythms tell the story of young love caught between two different worlds on a colorful island in the West Indies.

One stormy night, a village comes together to comfort a scared little girl by telling the story of the beautiful peasant Ti Moune, who nurses the wealthy aristocrat Daniel back to health, after he's in a car crash. Their love that grows is challenged by fate and dictated by the gods that control the island. Fanciful storytelling, rough magic, and inspired song and dance make this a theatrical experience not to be missed.

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Weiss N. Heimer

CLOSE PROXIMITY:  This is like saying dark blackness.  We ask patients, "Would you say far proximity?"  But sometimes we need redundancy, as in a family vacation story.  (By the way, isn't "family vacation" an oxymoron?)  A triple redundancy, cooped up in close proximity, may be the only way to adequately describe those hours in the car.

We don't cover this at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, however.  It would confuse our patients.  But we certainly have fun with it in private.  Therapists enjoy letting off steam in the Fowler Lounge by stringing redundancies as long as possible.  Densely cooped up in close proximity near each other, adjacently, for instance.

Usually, though, close proximity is used by the same pitiable folks who say period of time.  Both phrases make them sound fatuous.  They should say proximity and time or period.  Period.

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Running to Places, the non-profit theatre company for youth across Tompkins County, presents the family-friendly musical comedy: “Honk!” The most talented middle school performers from every corner of the region bring this heartwarming adaptation of The Ugly Duckling to the Dryden Central School Auditorium, June 12-14, Friday and Saturday at 7, Sunday at 2.

“Honk!” is the story of Ugly, whose odd, gawky looks instantly incite prejudice from his family and neighbors. Separated from his family and pursued by a hungry cat – Ugly must find his way home. Along his rollicking and harrowing journey, he discovers his true beauty and glorious destiny. Witty and hilarious, but also deeply moving, “Honk!” became a stand-out by beating “The Lion King” for the 2000 Olivier Award (the British equivalent of the Tony Award) for Best New Musical. According to Director Joey Steinhagen: “Many people have never heard of ‘Honk!’ It was a huge hit in London, and every audience that sees it falls in love with it. It’s the perfect balance of sweet without saccharin, funny and tear-jerking, sincere and outrageous.”

The Ballroom at Rogues’ Harbor Inn will host a party featuring rhythms of Latin dance to raise money for the Full Plate Farmer’s Collective Low Income Farm Shares.

Friday, June 12th the party starts at 6:00pm with a “survival Latin dance lesson” from 6 to 7:15 followed by an evening of Latin dance with DJ Michael Luis.

Opening this year's 2009 Kiddstuff season is the jovial musical Really Rosie written by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen), with music by four-time Grammy Award winning songwriter Carole King.  Using their vivid imaginations and a heap of dress-up clothes, Rosie and her friends make-believe they’re producing an Oscar-worthy movie.

This musical treasure will have you singing along to King’s classics “Chicken Soup with Rice”, “Very Far Away,” and of course, “Really Rosie”!  Really Rosie is wildly entertaining, sparking the imaginations of children and adults alike.  Really Rosie integrates educational topics such as how to count and the alphabet, as well as life lessons such as how we can overcome fears and get along better with siblings.

Running to Places, the non-profit theatre company for youth across Tompkins County, presents the family-friendly musical comedy: “Honk!” The most talented middle school performers from every corner of the region bring this heartwarming adaptation of The Ugly Duckling to the Dryden Central School Auditorium, June 12-14, Friday and Saturday at 7, Sunday at 2.

“Honk!” is the story of Ugly, whose odd, gawky looks instantly incite prejudice from his family and neighbors. Separated from his family and pursued by a hungry cat – Ugly must find his way home. Along his rollicking and harrowing journey, he discovers his true beauty and glorious destiny. Witty and hilarious, but also deeply moving, “Honk!” became a stand-out by beating “The Lion King” for the 2000 Olivier Award (the British equivalent of the Tony Award) for Best New Musical. According to Director Joey Steinhagen: “Many people have never heard of ‘Honk!’ It was a huge hit in London, and every audience that sees it falls in love with it. It’s the perfect balance of sweet without saccharin, funny and tear-jerking, sincere and outrageous.”

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