Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundred yards down the fire line, Greg Geisen, 32, from Alderpoint, Calif., blasts away at a burning tree with a hose. He wears the regulation fire-retardant green pants, yellow shirt and hard hat, and a dirty cloth is stretched across his mouth and nose. "My wife was crying when I told her I'd be going out," he says, leaning against the force of the water. "But I love it out here. It's just me against this fire." Bill Ream, a 40-year-old from Weaverville, Calif., puts it another way: "I sleep in the back...
...eclectic. Among the offerings were a musical setting of Mordecai Richler's brash comic novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Composer Salzman's Stauf, an anagrammatical updating of the Faust legend co-written by Michael Sahl. The highlights, though, were The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a moving minimalist meditation by British Composer Michael Nyman based on a case history in Neurologist Oliver Sacks' best seller, and Harry Partch's 1959 Revelation in the Courthouse Park, a quirky blending of Euripides and Elvis Presley, scored for an unorthodox orchestra and set to a musical scale with...
...virtual anthology of Marcello males, and the actor finds vibrant life in each of them. In his rich wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years later, reminiscing with a stranger, he is the old seducer whose spirit nearly broke when his heart did. Dark Eyes won Mastroianni the Best Actor prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and, by rights, should...
Robertson completed his political hat trick Tuesday night in Lansing, Mich. The state's nominating process began more than a year ago with the election of , some 9,000 precinct-level delegates. Though Bush and Kemp both invested much time and money, Robertson's supporters pulled off a surprise: in succeeding county-level conventions, they joined forces with some Kemp supporters to win control of the party machinery. The issue last week before the state's party central committee was whether to enlarge the pool of precinct delegates by nearly 1,200 party regulars, most of them Bush supporters...
...summit in the U. S. -- and maybe a reversal of the missile race. Still, the Pentagon takes a big step toward getting SDI moving. -- Bork' s shifting positions puzzle Senators more than ever, as his chief inquisitor, Biden, runs into a storm over plagiarism. -- A Pat Robertson hat trick stuns Bush and G. O. P. regulars...