Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painted it myself," boasts Publisher Bartle Bull, 36, as he flips through, a stack of folders that are also, well, red. Bull, former publisher of the Village Voice, and Editor Dennis Smith, 35, fire fighter and bestselling author (Report from Engine Co. 82, The Final Fire), are ablaze with enthusiasm for their new monthly magazine. The scarlet letters on the charter issue due out Sept. 10 read Firehouse...
...York last week. The occasion: the start of a two-week tribute to Composer Duke Ellington by the Alvin Ailey modern dance company. Ford, who once studied with Martha Graham, may have lost a few moves over the years, but obviously none of her enthusiasm. Backstage the First Lady partnered with Dancer Judith Jamison for a few smooth steps, then confided: "I still practice my ballet exercises in a large bathroom with a lot of mirrors when nobody is looking...
...time the author spent on his study. It is not that he is unaware of the subtle traps and deadfalls of racial theory. In fact, he does his usual imitation of a Renaissance man by including mathematical formulas derived from a biochemical blood index. But Koestler's enthusiasm for the idea of a non-Semitic Jewry threatens to drown his own carefully drawn qualifications...
...Sanders Theater on Tuesday night. Its members were all on stage, true--but as the nucleus of a chamber orchestra whose roster included some of Boston's best free-lance musicians. Accordingly, Tuesday night's performance, the sixth and last in the Chambers Players series, was marked by brisk enthusiasm and a high level of technical competence...
...each flawless performance, Comaneci would flash an automatic smile across her face as if it were an electronic scoreboard and prance briefly around the platform. But the show of enthusiasm almost seemed rehearsed, and she would subside immediately into the deep reaches of her concentration and composure. The smile and quick little dance steps about the floor were the only concession she made to the audience's clear desire that she refashion herself in the image of that ponytailed starlet of the 1972 Olympics, Russia's Olga Korbut. She is not an Olga...