Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being snubbed by President Lyndon Johnson, who thought he had leaked a story to the press. "I'm the living example that a man can be in the deep freeze for at least two weeks and still live. But then he'd give you that quick thaw. A wink with one of those eyes was just like two cymbals coming together in a clash. He'd forgiven me in one flick of the eyelid...
...particular Augean stable that 9to5 organizers have taken on, the muck lies deep. Change is slow in coming. The winner of 9to5's "Pettiest Office Procedures Contest" last fall was a man who had his secretary sew up a rip in the seat of his pants while he was in them. ("Men's egos are bigger today," he later explained to The Boston Globe. "Men want that little bit of security that a good secretary provides.") Second prize went to a store manager who asked his clerks to dress up as bumble bees to attract customers into his store...
...merely religious answer will not sacrifice. Only a profound change in the way we work and own and love will do that, and this will require Christianity to challenge deep-seated values and powerful interests. Unless that happens, the passionate quest for the human, so eloquently displayed by the East Turners, but felt by all of us, will surely fail...
...once scraped nightly from underneath 6,200 velvet-covered seats (20 Ibs.); the number of stops on the thundering Mighty Wurlitzer (375); the number of light bulbs (25,000); the weight of the chandeliers (two tons); and, naturally, the improbable dimensions of the stage (144 ft. wide, 67 ft. deep). But no statistic could quite translate the spectator's impression that the Music Hall could easily have accommodated a re-enactment of World War II. It was left to a latter-day comedian, David Steinberg, to hint at a performer's sense of the institution: "An intimate place...
...road to the big time, Emilia plunges into a short-lived affair with Yuri (Baryshnikov), the rakish Russian who is the crowning jewel of the company's impressive array of dancers. Yuri and Emilia consummate the relationship in one of the best scenes of The Turning Point; shot in deep blues and purples, the lovemaking is accompanied by ballet music, and appropriately enough, Emilia marks their climax with a ballet gesture, forming a graceful arch with her outstretched arms...