Word: impromptu
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...Magic Land of Alla Kazam in the '60s, is seeking to balance the trade in his trade by taking his bag of tricks to China. While visiting the People's Republic to arrange performances there next fall, Wilson conjured up big crowds with small, impromptu gigs in which he would make white penknives turn black and rubber balls multiply. His pièce de résistance occurred at China's most magical setting: the Great Wall. There Wilson chose a young volunteer and, without so much as an abracadabra or its Mandarin equivalent, set her afloat...
Even if a driver is obeying the speed limit, he still has worries. Many policemen have started to make impromptu safety inspections. Punishment for violations is swift...
...week's end more than 2,000 refugees had been brought to U.S. shores. Fidel Castro had unleashed the exodus by opening Mariel to foreign boats and issuing exit visas to those who wanted to leave. The impromptu rescue operation angered and embarrassed the Carter Administration, which held that the sealift was illegal and that the refugees were, at least technically, illegal aliens. To stem the tide, the U.S. Department of State warned that the skippers of the refugee boats could be liable for a $1,000 fine for each exile carried; moreover, their vessels could be seized...
...Jimmy Carter have been calling her two-faced ever since she dumped the incumbent to support Edward Kennedy's quest for the presidency. Speaking cosmetically rather than politically, however, Chicago's Democratic Mayor Jane Byrne really is. The Windy City's feisty mayor is given to impromptu press conferences at which she appears without television makeup. Embarrassed by the bags beneath her eyes that looked particularly heavy under bright TV lights, Byrne, 45, slipped into a hospital over Thanksgiving for a facelift. Reappearing in public last week, the mayor said nothing about her operation but was unperturbed...
Added to this consistency is her instinct for the impromptu, for the movement or gesture that no one thinks of until she does it and makes it inevitable. Her role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan as the other woman, having an affair with a married U.S. Senator, also placed her in an uneven struggle for audience sympathy. Many would argue that Meryl won hands down. Recalls Co-Star Alan Alda: "When she blew Tynan a kiss at the airport after their affair, that was Meryl's own inspiration. It was her way of conveying that she didn...