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...Lost, Found and Lost, premiered two weeks ago, for example, the subject is false sophistication. The music: airport Muzak. Charmaine sugarcoats the strings in one segment as dancers posture wearily in line, shuffling forward slowly. Fond of reconciling opposites, Taylor was struck by the idea in a dentist's office. "I used to ask him to turn off the wallpaper music," he says. "But then I started listening." Banality has never been as vibrant as it is under his direction. In black costumes with veils, designed by Artist Alex Katz, dancers stare into space, scratch, arrange hips and arms...
...enthusiastic. Cross-country captain Adam Dixon, one of the members of the selection committee, commented. "It's important to have someone who is acquainted with being a student and an athlete here at Harvard. In addition, he knows a lot about the sport and we're all very fond...
...George," and Schaap describes a series of events that suggest that Steinbrenner's vengeful, authoritarian, and image-conscious side first took hold early on. He tells us how Steinbrenner lied to friends about his performance on his high school track team and observes that today's owner is fond of bragging that he sang in the Williams Glee Club with Stephen Sondheim--though the famed composer was never a member of the group...
...will dwindle to a more normal 90 days by year's end, once demand for crude increases. If so, OPEC may again find itself dealing in oil markets from a position of strength. Today's declining prices for gasoline and heating oil would then become just a fond, fading memory...
...amiable singularity in this excellent first collection of sketches and stories is a quality hard to describe without making him seem fatuous and the describer sound balmy. He is in love with the upper Midwest, with the region and the people that Sinclair Lewis derided. He is rooted, fond of hickishness, fascinated by the utter, daft strangeness of the ordinary. At 39, he lives in St. Paul, not far from where he grew up, and although he has taken note of East Coast sophistication to the extent of sending most of these pieces to The New Yorker, he is firmly...