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...seen a play that I had done and decided that I was his dream director. Bill Finn is a very determined fellow, and so he browbeat me into doing it. He once stood on Stephen Sondheim's doorstep until he came home and forced his way into his house to play his music for him. He went to Williams College and so did Sondheim. So I guess he felt that was all the introduction he needed...
...They've lived in cities across the world and they have never had black, blue, green or yellow water," said Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72. Reeves said that upset Cantabridgians have left jars of discolored water on his doorstep...
...away beggars. Printed in Italian as well as Arabic -- the language of many of the city's poor -- the signs read, in part: We don't want to buy useless, superfluous goods, or see you begging. Explains Father Gianni Sangalli: "Every Sunday large crowds of immigrants gather at the doorstep of many churches in Turin asking for charity or peddling useless objects...
...warned that a rupture of this part of the fault & could trigger earthquakes along neighboring segments, possibly as far west as San Bernardino and nearly as far north as Bakersfield. Result: the long-feared Big One -- an earthquake of magnitude 8, five times as powerful as Landers -- on the doorstep of the populous Los Angeles Basin. Now, in the seismic spoor of the Landers earthquake, scientists have found reason to suspect that the timetable for this disaster may have been fast-forwarded...
...businessman bought two vacation homes in Bermuda, one for himself, one for his son. He hired a local firm to add swimming pools, verandas and air conditioning to both houses. Perot also set about finding a way to dock his 68-ft. cabin cruiser, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep...