Word: eva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sybil) has finished her Coward duties with George C. Scott in Present Laughter, and is moving on to Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. The Broadway show is set to open on Dec. 23, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth and the 50th anniversary of Actress Eva Le Gallienne's original stage presentation. Inspired by the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, Alice is again being produced by Le Gallienne, 83, who makes a flying appearance as the White Queen. After the relentless rehearsals, Burton, 25, observes, "my head is so full. It's been...
...last week's orbital glitches ended so happily. For the first time since 1974, U.S. astronauts were scheduled for a space walk outside their cabin. But the EVA (NASAese for extravehicular activity) had to be postponed when Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, one of the space agency's new breed of scientifically trained mission specialists, came down with a bad case of space sickness, a puzzling ailment that afflicts about half of all travelers in zero-g. Lenoir may have contributed to his own queasiness by indulging a passion for spicy-hot jalapeño peppers during the flight...
Heldi M. James, Charles T. Kurzman, Steven J. Parkey, Caroline B. Reeves, Catherine I. Schmidt and Eva J. Yablonsky contributed to this story...
Mission specialist Joseph Allen recalled that after he and William Lenoir deployed tow communications satellites last week Brand commented that the only flight objectives left were an EVA, extravehicular activity and a landing. Allen said he responded...
...arms, confidently striding across the stage, she demands the audience's attention. She also displays a not-too-subtle wit, fashioning gestures more reminiscent of a Billy Martin-Reggie Jackson ballpark feud than an exchange between a First Lady and a cabinet official. But of course much of Eva's mystique results from such apparent contradictions--the earthiness and the bejeweled regality, the saintliness and the promiscuity...