Word: diana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banker has heard of. Thus, when you want to cast a black version of The Wizard of Oz, you do not hold an audition for beautiful teen-age black girls who can sing like crazy, though the possibilities of such an audition stagger the imagination. You sign up Diana Ross, who is beautiful, sings Like crazy, and is known to bankers from a career dating back to the early '60s, when she was the lead singer of the Supremes. Ross is 34, so the script calls for a Dorothy who is 24 and a shy schoolteacher. This is awkward...
...bush. At first the guerrillas, clad in jungle green uniforms, seemed friendly, promising help. But then they herded together the ten people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding place, businessman Hans Hansen and his wife Diana could hear the victims crying, "Please don't shoot us!" as the firing began. Dazed by the ordeal, Hansen said later: "I'll never be able to get that moment out of my mind...
...shark cage while the other quietly plunged into the sea with little protection. But neither Diana Nyad, 28, nor Stella Taylor, 46, completed her marathon swim last week. Nyad was thwarted in her Cuba-to-Key West swim by 5-ft. to 8-ft. waves and painful jellyfish stings. As for Taylor, she headed off for Florida from the Bahamas, but was forced to stop because of strong currents. Said she: "It was a great time...
Robert Frost. Hannah Arendt, Lionel and Diana Trilling. Saul Bellow, Sylvia Plath...
...Director Diana Carpenter and choreographer Amy Ragsdale appear to have staged every word, polishing gestures and blocking to the point of stylization. Invention tops invention, and the tempo never falters; the quieter numbers seem to roll gracefully out of the frenetic moments, picking up speed and then tossing us back into the razzle-dazzle. Ragsdale choreographs persons and not feet; every limb has its moment in the spotlight, bobbing bodies trade steps from one corner of the stage to another--and when all that fascinating business converges into a single group motion, the effect is exhilarating. The chorus slides into...