Word: frightingly
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...amateur productions. Kids everywhere vie for a role in the ballet. When they get one, they can pose problems. One San Francisco production features a box of bonbons, played by very small children. Every year some tot goes on a crying jag. Last Christmas one child conquered her stage fright by downing a quick pizza and a hot pastrami. She could barely waddle out of the candy box, and staggered bleary-eyed around the stage...
...will be the second time this season that the Crimson has been on the tube. Their first appearance, a 24-13 waxing of Umass, has already been nominated for an Emmy, and only time will tell whether or not Yale handles their gridiron screen test with stage fright or hamming...
...Producer Jennings Lang says airport movies will become just like westerns; he expects to do at least ten to 20 more," notes Pamela Bellewood, star of Lang's new fly-by-fright flick. Titled Airport 77, the movie features Jimmy Stewart as a millionaire art collector, Bellewood as his daughter and the obligatory lineup of golden Hollywood oldies, including Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. In this one, Stewart & Co. jet off with their art treasures on a jumbo junket to Palm Beach, only to learn that thieves have put sleep gas in the 747's ventilation system...
...Yankees went on to win the game 11-4, but their inaugural moments were a fright. Starting Pitcher Rudy May walked the first Minnesota Twin to face him on four pitches, and then saw his fifth knocked over the left-centerfield fence by Dan Ford for the new stadium's first home run. With that an annoyed patron released a live piglet onto the field. But then Lefthander May, who was born in Coffeyville, Kans., and once went to a psychiatrist to cure his pitching woes, wound up and delivered a high, tight "moving" fastball to the Twins...
...everybody on the bus began to stomp their feet in time. The bus rattled, the bridge we were crossing seemed to shake, and far below on the roof of a factory a huge flock of pigeons that somehow sensed the apocalyptic moment bestirred itself and rustled off in fright. Just then the song had a rawness and currency that it has since lost in the thousands of times it has been replayed, years later, at white people's parties, and on that afternoon it threatened to crash everything in the city to the ground. By the time the bus reached...