Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very serious, dedicated young man with a wonderfully off-beat sense of humor," said Cabot Associate Master Ann C. Wacker...
Senator Alfonse D'Amato in 1986. If she made the ticket and the Democrats lost, Ferraro would be out of office. She does not see that as a long-term political handicap. Says she: "You run, give it your best shot, and if you lose you beat up on your opponent for two years and then run again...
...opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is followed by the crew of the starship Enterprise (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and by a hardy, ragtag company of mercenaries: punk rockers (Streets of Fire), Jewish gangsters (Once Upon a Time in America), breakdancing dervishes (Beat Street), comic exorcists (Ghostbusters), bumbling spies (Top Secret!) and sci-fi sorcerers (The Last Star fighter). The down-home marching band is led by Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone (Rhinestone), and at the rear of the pack, Burt Reynolds guns his battered Trans Am tank (Cannonball II). By Independence Day, if past...
...checked into the Four Seasons Hotel virtually unnoticed, until he asked the management to install a 6-ft. by 8-ft. parquet dance floor in his fourth-floor suite. Jackson appeared next at the White House, to be lauded by the President and Nancy Reagan for allowing his song Beat It to be used in a Government anti-drunk-driving ad campaign. Resplendent in his glittery white glove and electric blue Sgt. Pepper jacket, Jackson looked more like a visiting head of state than a singer. During a White House tour, the pop idol was intrigued by a portrait...
...Philadelphia. Says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that does not make a good conductor," observes Fleischmann. "What we need is magicians capable of performing mysterious acts with an orchestra." Alas, the favored trick today seems to be the vanishing...