Word: buff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the audience who answered a New York City Opera questionnaire were overwhelmingly in favor of the subtitles. A sampling of operagoers interviewed by TIME during the first two weeks of Cendrillon performances had scarcely any complaints. Opera Buff Milicent Auerbach conceded that continually looking up at the titles and down at the stage could give someone seated in the orchestra a pain in the neck. "The words being sung and the subtitles didn't always coincide," noted Brooklyn College Professor Carolyn Richmond. "But the captions were very helpful. Even though I understand French, I wouldn...
...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. "I've heard it's still up there in a park some place, though I've never seen it since." The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life...
...Sloan-Kettering caper and this summer's hit movie WarGames-the story of a young computer buff who nearly sets off a nuclear war when he accidentally gets into one of the Defense Department's most sensitive machines-have focused attention on a serious question: How to safeguard information stored inside computers? The potential for fraud is awesome. The American banking system alone moves more than $400 billion between computers every day. Corporate data banks hold consumer records and business plans worth untold billions. Military computers contain secrets that, if stolen, could threaten U.S. security. Many of these...
Next we see the family's progress through the obstacle course of media celebration. Delilah is an overeager guest on The Dating Game, Bill poses in bed for Esquire, and Lance poses in the buff for Screw. It is like watching a Woody Allen parody of Andy Warhol's too familiar conceit that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes...
...admitted baseball buff also concluded that Blacks are over-represented at both ends of the salary spectrum but start out making less than comparable white players. Discrimination affects mediocre Block pros the most, Mendonca argues...