Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Most of the parents I know are not ambivalent about having the kids." Mary Williams, the adoptive mother of four children, two of them Vietnamese, says. "The children require enormous amounts of effort, and the parents try to think carefully about what they do for them. The parents themselves cover...
The Day of the Locust. "The violet hush of twilight was descending over Los Angeles as my hostess, Violet Hush, and I left its suburbs headed toward Hollywood. In the distance a glow of huge piles of burning motion picture scripts lit up the sky. The crisp tang of frying...
¶ It might be an interesting experiment in November 1976 if we were to elect a President and Congress of the same party. For the past quarter-century, more often than not the party in control of the White House has not controlled both houses of the Congress. We have...
There have been a handful of such dancers in this century. In his brief time (1908-17), Vaslav Nijinsky's wild genius established itself as the mythic standard against which all premiers danseurs will apparently always be judged. In the '50s and early '60s, Erik Bruhn, 46...
In all his roles, Baryshnikov fairly radiates daring. It has been suggested that he must believe in Laurence Olivier's dictum that nothing is really interesting onstage unless the performer is risking sudden death. It is a notion that amuses him: "It is not so important that the actor...