Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the evening is much lighter than "Isabella," though no less intense. Swados selected the pieces from her workshop at the Lenox Arts Center without enough alteration to properly fit the stage. Numbers like "Bestiario" and "Dibarti" are merely actors' exercises, delivered with spitspewing intensity. Successful theatre must rely on something more and something less than shouting to move and involve its audience...
...specialist in medieval Russian history who, at age 42, has already spent 22 years at Harvard, Keenan says the country and its graduate schools are entering a period of considerable "aggregate statistical turbulence. The question is, where will Harvard fit in to these statistics? We can't expect to live always in the style to which we've become accustomed." The new dean cites the studies with just a trace of resignation: Between now and 1990, as many academic appointments will open up as during the two-year period of 1965-66. That translates into about 4800 college jobs openings...
...sound different. "You must know that one character will say a line one way and another would say it differently," Silverman told the producers. "You must define these characters better." Originally, Writer Abby Mann wanted Kojak to be more human and more fallible. But Silverman wanted him tailored to fit the style of Star Telly Savalas. Now, complains Mann, who is no longer involved in the Kojak series, "Kojak is imperturbable. He's always right. He has become exactly the reverse of what I intended...
...Presley's multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last week, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, 62, is instructed to divide the estate among family members as he sees fit. The only kin mentioned were Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, 85. The document, signed last March, makes no bequest to the singer's ex-wife Priscilla, 32, or his fiancee, Ginger Alden, 20, who found his body in the bathroom. Nor does...
...students want practical advice. One of them, an intent note taker, asks how "geographical descriptions" should be fitted into a biographical narrative. "Wherever they fit naturally," Edel retorts...