Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tennis courts. He perfected something he called "a top-spin backhand," and not even Jaws gave him the thrill he got from beating Presidential Contenders Birch Bayh and Lloyd Bentsen. It may be an indication of political things to come. One of the world's famous lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams, called the unusual calm "a return to abnormality." His view is that the bizarre has become the norm and such letdowns as we are now experiencing will continue to be the unusual...
Last week, in an unprecedented gesture of atonement, hundreds of Catholics turned out for Llewellyn's funeral procession, and Father Aodh Bennett of the Clonard Monastery near Falls Road held prayer services for the soul of "our brother Samuel." Father Bennett said, however, that he would not reveal the names of the two Catholic thugs who he suspects led the mob in Llewellyn's slaughter. "They'll be punished by their own people," he said, "and when that happens, may God avert his eyes...
...painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs a custom wig salon. But Daniel Eastman, a leading Beverly Hills skin-care specialist, protests that it is an "outrageous" fad, and a number of dermatologists back him up. Some doctors explain that Preparation H works on the face by slightly irritating the skin, thus causing enough swelling...
...August of last year, Bennett and one of the dancers, Nicholas Dante, had converted the tape into a five-hour play with no music. They put it on in workshop but decided it was too heavy. Bennett then called in his old friend and dance arranger, Marvin Hamlisch, who arranged the Oscar-winning score for The Sting. "I wanted an opera-ballet," Bennett explains. "The music only stops three times in the whole show. I wanted the music to stop for talk rather than a show where everyone talks, and then they sing and dance...
Much of A Chorus Line is taken from Bennett's own life and feelings about the theater. He was born in 1943 in Buffalo, the year Oklahoma! started Broadway on a musical bonanza. His mother worked as a secretary at Sears and his father as a machinist in the Chevy plant. They still do. By the time Michael was three, he was an incurable dancer to any music from the radio. His parents started him in dancing school, and he has never stopped-dancer in West Side Story and Subways Are for Sleeping, choreographer of Company and Follies...