Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoelaces on the uptake. He had banana peel appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them. Unless, of course they can capitalize on their embarrassment and go professional. Since Charlie Chaplin turned the loser into a comic classic, some...
Black cumulonimbus clouds rolled in on New York City, darkening the afternoon sky up to nearly 40,000 ft. Lightning bolts darted above Manhattan's skyscrapers. Thunder sporadically overwhelmed the city's normal noises of traffic, subways and sirens. It would be a wet but cool rush hour, a welcome break in the summer's first siege of humid heat...
...pretty sure they found some. The King Must Die was obviously about the Memphis assassination, while Honky Chateau was clearly a code word for the White House, Madman Across the Water a musical portrait of Richard Nixon. Elton has denied such suggestions, almost to the point of blowing his cool: "I can't stand some half-stoned junkie coming onstage to yell out his political ideas...
...that sometimes seems commonplace, it has usually been the work of individual fanatics, rival factions within a nation, insurrectionists, nationalists seeking to throw off external government, or citizens moved to eliminate a tyrant. Seldom have governments set out to kill the principals of other governments as a matter of cool policy, even with the bloodiest provocation...
...Diaghilev's Ballet Russe suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival, but the public was cool to Choreographer Frederick Ashton's jarring transfer of the mythic lovers from the 3rd century B.C. to modern Greece. This spring, for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, John Taras confected an ill-favored mod-squad version that will probably be consigned to the choreographic trash can. George Balanchine flatly...