Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where the Princess Aurora and her attendant nymphs danced before the bedazzled Prince. Here the ensemble choreography abandoned the conventional interlocking straight lines, and worked a tapestry of fluid configurations. Dancers bordered the stage in an open rectangle, clustered in a small circle, dipped into a deepening zigzag, or fell to the floor in a smooth oval, their long gowns floating out around them like water lily-pads. When the curtain fell, the patterns lingered in the mind like a figure-skater's traces...
Bill Cento, a Berklee student, expressed unquotable disbelief when he found out that the clubs were going to close. Then he fell silent...
...that have engulfed the city during the past winter, the worst in 30 years. The day after the seagulls returned to International Falls, Minn., a traditional sign of spring in the coldest town in the lower 48 states, a fierce ice storm hit Chicago. Huge shards fell from the Hancock Center and Sears Tower onto the streets below, and electric lines gave way in downstate Illinois, leaving nearly a million people without power...
...recent years Curtiss-Wright has not been a distinguished performer. Profits dropped from $19 million in 1976 to $16.3 million last year, while sales fell from $337 million to $310 million. Berner, a silver-thatched figure, has become something of a recluse. That is a stance he must now abandon; a proxy fight is a campaign for votes, and the attacker must be as much a politician as a businessman...
...house at the end of the street in Pacific Palisades is an unpretentious single-level ranch with requisite car port. The torrents of rain that recently fell on Southern California have turned the lawn AstroTurf green. Strawberries, one of Noah's occasional words, are ripening along the walk that leads to the front door...