Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stone. After a suitable confrontation with evil, the firebird triumphs. The girls are free, and the prince picks the fairest of them (Karena Brock) as his bride. In Balanchine's more sophisticated version, there are no golden apples, and the demon's spirit is not hiding in a big egg. It is refreshing to see the trappings of the fairy tales on display. The ballet's giddiest sequence is a brief game of apple catch, played with indolent good humor by the supposedly imprisoned girls...
Sometimes I think I invented you, Henry. Or at least I prophesied you. Because you live what I talk about. I couldn't exist the way you do, Henry; I like my warm toast and tea and soft-boiled egg brought to me on a tray in bed each morning...But I admire you, Henry, I really...
...than being able to tumble out of bed at 9:25, stumble into breakfast at 9:29, and truck up to class at 9:55 with a group of friends in the House, upperclassmen will be obliged to negotiate the locked entrances of unfamiliar Houses in search of the egg, the waffle, and the dining hall...
...best quarterback in the school, you'd know his mother's maiden name, and if he was the best goalie, you'd know his favorite cereal, but he's only the best ski jumper, and since skiing gets as much recognition around here as an egg roll in an Italian restaurant, you probably don't know Dave Rand, period...
...Jerden," as the name is pronounced down home. To all appearances, he is the good ole boy come to Washington: joshing, tieless, rumpled, feet on desk, a thick scallop of hair falling across an unlined, apple-cheeked face that is as unrevealing of emotion as a painted Easter egg. Operating only 50 steps from the Oval Office, Jordan, 32, still looks as if he would be more at home with the boys in Billy Carter's filling station...