Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commemoration of all she has given and, lately, received, the world's top singer-dancer-comedian-songwriter-actress-author-survivor-thriv er-dynamo- divinity deserves some special prize. The Tony isn't tony enough. The Nobel Prize wouldn't be noble enough. And so to you, Bette Midler, the academy of your admirers is pleased to present its Life Achievement Award for the body of your work. And the work of your body...
...Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...
Nervy attacks, not attacks of nerves, are the usual hallmark of the brassy dynamo who has been successfully lecturing and hectoring the American public for the past decade. Her weekly "Personal Health" column for the New York Times is syndicated by more than 100 papers across the country. Two of her books have been best sellers, including the recent, recipe-laden Jane Brody's Good Food Book, which goes into paperback next spring. She speaks throughout the country, making about 50 appearances a year. Last week the writer took to television as the host of a PBS series...
Kashani is probably best known as the guiding force behind Harvard's Conservative Club, masterminding a series of events that have ruffled the feathers of the left. But he was also one of the prime movers in the Harvard Model United Nations for four years, an academic dynamo in two disparate fields, and occasional journalist for both the Crimson and the Salient...
...wounds are self-inflicted. He seems to drone endlessly, eyes glazed and fingers fidgeting, in a voice that ought to earn him the name Cyrano de Sinusitus. But once he's roused from this topor by the approach of a good joke, Roe becomes an adrenalin-charged humor dynamo, leaping and cavorting about the stage. His mad attack upon the lascivious Comte de Guiche (Jeff Rosen) and his introduction to Christian (Ted Dane) are both superb, hinting at a potentially brilliant performance that got sidetracked along...