Word: impromptu
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Roberts and Chaikovsky, the roommates and highly improbable doubles partners, dropped their racquets and embraced. The entire team mobbed them in a made, impromptu dance. The Cornell players, unaware of the circumstances (and nobody was going to tell them, either) shook their heads in supreme puzzlement...
DIED. Ezekiel C. ("Took") Gathings, 75, conservative Arkansas Congressman (1939-69); of a heart attack; in West Memphis, Ark. Influential on agricultural committees, Gathings made headlines in 1952 when he did an impromptu hootchy-kootchy before a House committee to illustrate the lewdness of TV. Opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he insisted that "the Negro in the South is a happy person. He understands the members of the white race, and they understand...
...humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this case a shopgirl and her electronics technician fianc...
...melange of life-styles is best viewed in the kaleidoscope of scenes each evening at sunset. Many Northern tourists stroll from the boutiques and galleries of renovated Duval Street to the Mallory Square dock to soak up the impromptu theater-jugglers, bands, ventriloquists, and an iguana man who lets children pet the iguanas he walks on a leash. As the sun disappears below the horizon, the crowd applauds. Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend...
Ballet dancing Rodeo, Rudolf Serkin playing a Schubert impromptu and John Denver singing Rocky Mountain High. Then came a surprise for basketball fan Teng, the clowning of the Harlem Globetrotters. Teng also clearly enjoyed the singing of I Love T'ien An Men Square, in Chinese, by the 80-member National Children's Choir. After the show the Carters, Teng, and his wife, who was holding hands with Amy Carter, rushed up to shake hands with the Globetrotters and kiss the children. Carter finally exited with Teng stage left, his arm draped casually around the Vice Premier...