Word: ah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conversation was wasted on trivialities. "My parents don't know about basketball," said Olajuwon, whose lilt brings back the beautiful Nigerian prizefighter Dick Tiger. "They ask about education. Some day I plan to go into commodities, but you need money to make money." The N.B.A., then? "Ah," he said...
...almost asphyxiatingly close-knit family around him. While the play housed at Broadway's Alvin Theater does not fully attain the playwright's highest aims, it does give off compelling glints of an urban Morning's at Seven, a ghetto Our Town and a wryly caustic Ah, Wilderness! Like them, Brighton Beach Memoirs belongs to the family genre where the passwords are forgive and remember...
...instead to concentrate on small, reliable, and cheap weapons. Applying this principle, Hart recently proposed a defense budget that would save more than $100 billion in spending authority over the next five years by eliminating useless gadgets like the MX, the B-1B, the Bradley fighting vehicle, and AH-64 attack helicopter, and the F-18 fighter. Hart, incidentally, supports the nuclear weapons freeze...
...acting predictably deteriorates to stylization. Widened eyes and gaping mouths abound Dramatic moments or turning points often fall prey to a sort of lag time, as singers apparently realize several lines too late that they were supposed to change expression; Count Almaviva in Act III, for example, plunges into "Ah, My Joyous Heart Is Flying" with a touching show of grief left over from the previous recitation. The exception to the awkwardness is Hughes, who as Cherubino portrays first a lively teenage boy, then a boy masquerading as a girl, with limitless aplomb and stage presence. Hughes' voice also provides...
...cold, but mental preparation. He wished he could have just one more hour or so. "Snoozing" didn't fool him, so he decided to set his alarm for 3 a.m. a few mornings. When he woke up at three, he could look at the clock and say, "Ah, I have four more hours to sleep." Another fellow had an even stranger method. Because of a late job, he doesn't get to sleep until 4:30 any morning, but he also doesn't like to sleep all day. By his bedside he keeps a glass of water and some...