Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fellow performers often giggled at the persona, but they liked the man. Said Shirley MacLaine: "Lee's a hoot. He always gives a good show." Edie Adams concurred: "He was outrageous when outrageous wasn't cool. He was a little kid and nice to be around, on or off the stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button...
...contrapuntal hum. It was all bloody romantic, and when a paddle-wheeler, the latest O'Shea expansion, came to berth with 100 or so diners aboard, they simply fell to working off their meals aerobically: a waltz to warm up, a jitterbug for the cardiovascular good, a waltz to cool down. "I never cared for any other kind of music," said a woman of some years named Barbara Rudolph, "and I never had a husband who did either." Just then she was dipped by Myron Perlstine, who smiled despite the tune, which was I'll Never Smile Again...
Gorbachev was just getting wound up. In cool and firm tones, with uncommon candor, he rattled off a long catalog of abuses of the system. He charged that...
...actors range from nervous novices to jovial, seasoned veterans. Rookie Bob J. Toner '89 says the audition process is "nerve-wracking," although he says that the directors he has auditioned for so far have been "pretty cool." Still, he says he finds himself at a disadvantage competing against the more experienced actors...
...unsolicited testimonial: "I know it sounds corny, but I was saved by film school." He enrolled at New York University on the G.I. Bill. "To be able to study movies in college, it was any movie buff's dream. It was cool too, like studying to be an astronaut. Martin Scorsese was my first teacher. He was like a mad scientist, with hair down to here. He was someone on an equal wave of nuttiness. And he helped channel the rage in me." Stone made a short film for Scorsese's class called Last Year in Viet Nam, about...