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When Twyla Tharp was 8 years old, her family moved from rural Indiana to a small town near San Bernardino, Calif., and opened a drive-in movie theater. Tharp's mother, an accomplished pianist, had put her precocious daughter through the usual cultural paces--lessons in ballet and tap as well as several musical instruments--but the family movie palace is where Tharp got her first real feel for an audience. She'd work at the snack bar and sit in a junked car way up front to watch the movies--westerns, musicals, horror-film fright fests on Friday...
...that experience helped drive her back to Sinatra. Originally she had wanted to do Dylan's love songs, she says, but was dissuaded for commercial reasons. Now she's returned to the basics: romance and movement--and winning over the audience. "It's called 'Make the folks feel a little better for an evening, and leave on a high,'" Tharp says. And if you miss the Balzac references, she'll probably forgive...
...back-of-the-envelope calculations ... suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems ... your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years [are] 2.8 in a million ... Driving one of these suspect Toyotas raises your chances of dying in a car crash over the next two years from .01907% ... to .01935% ... It's not worth losing sleep over...
...fourth, junior Dillon O’Neill stepped up on defense and made a huge diving catch on a sinking line drive in center field to preserve...
...construction waste is being recycled or reused rather than being sent to landfills, according to a report on the sustainability of the project. The parking garage will also use a “preferred parking” system—offering better spots to faculty and staff who drive high-performance, environmentally-friendly cars, Hagen said...