Word: displays
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Both contentions seem exaggerated. To win the budget vote, Reagan had to put on a display of wheeling, dealing and horse trading not seen since the days of Lyndon Johnson. To woo a handful of Southern Democrats, the Administration agreed to phase out gradually, rather than eliminate in 1982, federal aid to school districts near military bases, many of which are in the South. To hold Northeastern Republicans in line, the Reaganauts went along with "Nobody knows what's in their bill." one of the few spending increases in the whole budget: a $400 million rise, to $1.8 billion...
Along with classics, the company has unveiled many new ballets, chiefly by Ashton and current Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, 51. On this trip the Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time...
...semifinal match against Australia's Rod Frawley, he picked up another penalty point, screaming, "I always get robbed because of the umpires in this place." That proved too much for Lady Diana Spencer, who left the royal box halfway through the long and argument-marred match. The display cost him an additional $10,000 fine...
...with scales, swoops over hapless victims, booming displeasure with the human race. Great care has been taken to construct a plausible lair for the villain, a spooky underground grotto containing an Olympic-sized pool complete with burning water and oozing ceiling. The little baby dragons, who display a revolting appetite for freshly killed princess and give Galen some initial resistance, may provoke more than a few people to go home and flush their salamanders and iguanas down the toilet while there's still time...
...That display of steely composure and courageous tennis illustrated the greatness John McEnroe possesses, if anyone had any questions before the match. True, he didn't have a very tough time getting to the final, but McEnroe beat the world's best on a day when Borg was playing as well as he could. As the Swede said afterwards, it was a matter of a few big points, those points in the third set and several others, the ones Borg always walks away with, the ones McEnroe boldly grabbed Saturday afternoon...