Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afraid of the Dark--Winthrop J-Entry Basement, midnight...
...posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess a few minutes later. "I came to applaud you," said Reagan, clapping his own hands. "It was in the fourth quarter, goal to go, and you pushed it over. Doesn't it feel good...
...endurable. Or perhaps folk tales, old and new, urban and rural, are so full of life themselves that they will not lie still in their graves. Consider the modern classic about the woman in Ohio (or was it Oregon? or Maine?) who is doing the laundry in her basement when she impulsively decides to remove her soiled dress and add it to the load. Her hair is in rollers and the pipes overhead are leaking. She spots her son's football helmet and dons it. There she stands, naked except for the helmet, when she hears a cough...
...physical workout is brisk and tiring. Vivacious Jacki Sorensen, 38, the guru of the trend, who now oversees the 42-state chain of Aerobic Dancing Inc. studios, began the movement in 1971 from a church basement in South Orange, N.J. Says she: "It's a fad gone stir crazy." Indeed, Sorensen's and a host of other programs attract an amazing 6 million participants a month. Says a student at Jon Devlin's Dancercise in New York: "My main reason for coming is my head. If I miss three days, I have to come...
...didn't cry." Back in his basement command post, Majeski concluded that Abbott was a broken man, if still a vain...