Word: jaded
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...forest, In the waste land, doe is laid: White rushes over her. Lady beautiful as jade...
...business agent. Climbing the broad stairs to the lobby of the popular, 274-room Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which commands an unrivaled view of Hong Kong itself banked against the Peak across the harbor, the visitor is surrounded by shop after shop selling bargain-priced brocades, silks, cameras, pearls, jade, tape recorders, linens, carved ivory and inlaid furniture...
...plus the problems of telescoping four Act I scenes into two, straightening out Act II, deepening Mordred's villainy all of which requires new lines, new musical bridges, and scenes long enough to allow complicated scene shifts. When he is not pounding the piano, Loewe fingers a piece of jade it once belonged to an Oriental potentate who said his beloved had always kept it as close as possible to her which serves Fritz as a sort of mineral Miltown...
...there. Loewe is a bit rumpled, his predilections turning more to wine, women, and when the need arises song. Lerner smokes, and has a habit of twirling the ignited cigarette in his fingers like the active end of a turboprop. Loewe has given up smoking, but when the jade palls he constantly keeps an unlit cigarette in his hand, gradually flattening and shredding it as he talks. He pinches away a pack a day, recently changed brands...
...elephants in a sports car"). The move is toward wreck-hounding, tracing underground springs through black and frigid waters, studying rock and reef, and taking underwater color movies. Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted diver. They hunt for jade off California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes from Spanish galleons sunk off Florida, and hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week...