Word: funs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband became fascinated by skaters' expressions. Skilled skaters were completely absorbed in their sport while the others were simply fooling around and having a great time. Chapnick said the simplicity and the wholesomeness of skating is appealing--it is truly American, good exercise and a lot more fun than jogging. Her customers range from children to professionals, she said. One of Chapnick's customers, a young internist from Philadelphia, asked her where he could disco rollerskate in Boston, she said. To her surprise, he proved his skill by skating gracefully, backwards, up the hill behind her store...
...People Play, decided just yesterday to try skating with her niece, Monica Karpowish, she said. "I haven't skated in 28 years," she added, "but I skated a lot when I was little and I thought it would all come back." It must have, because she had no much fun she plans to skate everyday for exercise...
...babysitter, the snarl of traffic, parking traumas, reservations that have evaporated, and the final securing of seats in an abysmal location. Each sequence is set to some theater tune; singing "I can't believe these seats" to the melody of I Could Have Danced All Night doubles the fun...
...four performers, Evalyn Baron, John Driver, Jeffrey Haddow and Roger Neil, play the piano in addition to their other chores. They are fun to be with. At one point, the quartet is upstaged by a duck named Hermione who is put on the piano. A delirious discussion ensues about whether or not the duck will fertilize it. Be that as it may, the evening is well fertilized with laughter...
Lytton Strachey had both, and his Eminent Victorians, which made fun of those letter-writing idols, delighted post-World War I readers, who wanted to hear the dirt about the people who had brought on the disaster. Strachey was imitated throughout the '20s and '30s and, wrote Bernard De Voto, "biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them." That game is over. In the past generation the best biographers have righted the balance, creating what approaches a fresh and vigorous art form...