The life of a prolific show-runner and single mom can be a whirlwind, and the ability to say "no" might seem like a necessary survival tactic.
Yet some performers I saw there already had all the gifts, material and charisma necessary for stardom, including Kendra Cunningham with her sex-starved, blue-collar single woman act and improv whirlwind Rachel Rosenthal, now drawing laughs regularly with the house team at the People's Improv Theater in New York.
The whirlwind life suits her: single parent, store owner contemplating a venture on the Upper West Side, leader of one of the store's book clubs (international fiction), member of a Proust reading group, hiker.
Written and directed by Tom Hanks, That Thing You Do! follows 60s beat combo The Wonders, a gang of Beatles clones chasing a dream after the whirlwind success of their first single.
Her brief respite comes in the middle of what's been a whirlwind three months after her debut single, Lost Boy, unexpectedly scaled the American charts.
Michael Griffin told me he doesn't have a single copy of his extraordinary book, Reaping the Whirlwind – The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan.
S.E.C. accusations that Goldman defrauded investors in that single transaction, Abacus 2007-AC1, have thrust the bank into a legal whirlwind.
Duffy, enjoying her second week astride the UK singles chart with "Mercy" – courtesy of downloads alone – is reaping the whirlwind of previous hype billing her as this year's answer to the retro-diva Amy Winehouse.
All four flames will then go on whirlwind tours of community groups in each city before being combined into a single Paralympic flame at Stoke Mandeville, the home of the Paralympics.
All of the singleton genomes have >30% orphams, and most of the other genomes with relatively high proportions of orphams are the single-genome subclusters (Table 2 ) including Hawkeye (D2), Myrna (C2), Squirty (F3), Barnyard (H2), Che9c (I2), Whirlwind (L3), Rey (M2), and Purky (P2).
