Word: alma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jokes, charisma, spot-inspections of the patrons' preppy attire, and generally witty personality wooed a Lacoste-clad crowd into buying nearly 100 copies of her book in the first hour. She dazzled patrons with her ability to describe their friends, aided only with the knowledge of the person's alma mater, which lead to the sales of more copies for more friends...
...bless his soul-decided to go with the free economy," says Regan. "Without understanding economics worth a damn he understood what the country needed economically. He and my predecessor here, John Snyder-the country banker and the country bumpkin-knew more about economics than many sophisticates out of my alma mater or anywhere else. Economics is not a science...
Mahler's "Tragic" symphony ends like Apocalypse Now. It is perhaps the most terrifying chord in all music. Mahler (1860-1911) gave more than a ten-minute appearance however (unlike Brando). His wife Alma said in her letters that the Sixth is autobiographical, like most of his other symphonies. Mahler has the last word in romantic program music--music that suggests events and images. No other composer has chosen the same hero...
...celesta (a cross between a harpsichord and a xylophone) that give the impression of mountains and lakes at Maiernegg, where Mahler composed. The first three movements suggest rest and relaxation. Two children make castles and zigzags in the sand in the Scherzo. The kids are Mahler's, according to Alma...
...tank's owner is Human Potential Counselor Alma Daniel, 45, a veteran of the self-awareness movement who, by her count, has attended 52 consciousness-expanding workshops in the past six years. She installed the tank last April in a bedroom of her 25th-floor Manhattan apartment. Now five people a week shed their clothes, as well as their sense of time and space, and for $25 spend one hour exploring their psyches in the Epsom tub or simply enjoying a good soak...