Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flashing violet -which in her case means go-she could melt an igloo. During the three weeks in Fort Lauderdale, the loud, rollicking laughter from her dressing room backstage almost brought down the roof. "I know," she says, somewhat abashed when it is mentioned to her. "Noël Coward told me once that my laugh is like a drunken sailor's on leave. But when I get to know somebody and can let my hair down, I am a boisterous, raucous, down-to-earth, no-nonsense lady. I live life with a zest. It has never been dull...
...wing and make a chairbound audience irresistibly airborne. The X factor, and Sophisticated Ladies has it, is mood. All of Ellington's music is mood music, and its components are inescapably urban, elegant, nocturnal and just a trifle snobbish. Ellington is as close as possible to being Noel Coward's twin...
...What Coward did for the bright Weary of It All worldlings of London, Ellington did for the smart, sassy Take the "A " Train Harlem-Manhattan axis. This mood resonates throughout the show, particularly in Set Designer Tony Walton's scenic imagination. He inscribes the Cotton Club in neon across the night sky rather as Picasso painted with a flashlight in the dark. Through dark blue and white lighting, a flight of stairs becomes a piano keyboard to prance...
...London, serious talks were starting. London was an obvious center for part of the negotiations because only its banking community and New York's had the skill and experience to conduct such a huge financial exchange. During the second week of January, Citibank's British lawyers, Coward Chance, invited legal counsel from the other eleven banks to its offices on Aldermanbury Square for a preliminary discussion of recent developments. Then, on Jan. 15, U.S. Negotiator Warren Christopher ordered his jet to stop in London on the way from Washington to Algiers. There it picked up two Bank...
...Shakespeare's Hamlet warns, Carter's enlarged conscience makes a coward of him, then by almost every measure in this sad nation, the future is bleak. It is a season for new resolve, for a display of determination that this White House has never reached before. These days cry out for daring, defiance, even jauntiness. Carter tried, failed, but his message now should be, let the world beware...