Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luring them in with promises of a cheap vacation in a grandiose building. One elderly woman I met, who had admired Tammy Faye on a local T.V. show years ago, had dragged her husband here for an affordable retirement vacation. Their one-time donation of $1000 was supposed to bring them a room every year for the rest of their lives in the new Tower--only it hasn't been completed yet and construction has been stalled by the PTL's debt problem...
Harvard affiliates seeking places on the City Council and School Committee today said they hope to bring a balanced perspective to town-gown relations...
...Michael Becker's woes won't bring tears to your eyes, but there's no need to snicker. Becker, 29 and single, works as a broker for Kidder Peabody on Wall Street. He earns a six-figure salary, likes his restaurants expensive and vacations in Africa, French Polynesia, Australia and London. This week he was scheduled to close on a loft apartment, but last week found him on the phone, pleading with his lawyer to extricate him from the contract. "I even told the shoeshine boy, 'I can't afford a shine today,' " he laments...
...Nevertheless he was putting himself at some risk. His new paintings, as they got loopier and more & baroque, looked like a critique of the high cool and decorous lyricism that had become the twin poles of American abstraction. "Somehow painting today," he would write later, "especially abstract painting, cannot bring itself to declare what Caravaggio and Rubens demonstrated again and again -- that picture building is everything...
Anything Goes begins and ends -- in this production, literally -- with Cole Porter, whose extraordinary score is the one reason to bring back this sweetly silly show. As the lights dim, his reedy voice is heard intoning the title tune. At the curtain, after a pleasure cruise through the likes of You're the Top, Friendship and It's Delovely (the latter two lifted from other Porter shows), a giant lighted-up portrait of the composer-lyricist, who died in 1964, descends to smile benevolently...