Word: camelizing
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...light shines best on Peter Allen at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, and he knows it. In 1981, before seven sellout audiences, the campy Australian crooner rode onto the Radio City stage atop a camel This time he offers an affectionate if glitzy tribute to Al Jolson. There are 37 musicians, 36 Rockettes and a 40-ft. staircase for Allen to prance upon As a dancer, Allen makes up in perspiration what he lacks in locomotion. Is he afraid of falling from those steps? Said he: "There are 36 girls to catch...
...teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...
...regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...
...optimistic in this world...[thinking that there is] a better chance at maintaining stability and peace than to start to fool around with the system in significant ways. I'm concerned that the direction we're going is putting with respect to nuclear weapons too much weight on the camel's back...and we haven't even mentioned proliferation, which of course is going to complicate it....So I'm a pessimist...
...Criswell has been raising cotton on his 1,700-acre farm in Idalou, Texas, since 1955. Cotton is called the camel of crops because it requires little water, yet Criswell is now in trouble. His water table has dropped 100 ft. since he started farming. Nine years ago, he paid $4 an acre to water his cotton; today he pays more than $45. "It's like a disease," he says. "You just accept it and go on." Gerald Wiechman farms 6,000 acres and feeds 2,500 head of steer near Scott City in western Kansas. When his farm...