Word: joining
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Demand for rental units is high, partly because house prices are at record levels, forcing tenants to postpone buying homes-or to double up and join another family in renting a large old house. The tight market also reflects changing American social values. The growing population of Splitsville-more than 1 million Americans got divorces last year, v. less than half that number a decade ago-has forced spouses to seek separate dwellings, and they usually want apartments. So do childless hetero-and homosexual couples and independent-minded women. In Los Angeles, the number of people per dwelling dropped from...
...atheists, will flock to watch the predawn procession of crosses and icons around Moscow's Yelokhovsky Cathedral, where Young Communists in red armbands stand by outside to see that only regular worshipers actually attend the rites. Inside, bathed in the glare of thousands of candles, the congregation will join Pimen, Patriarch of All the Russias, in the great cry of triumph, "Khristos voskres!" (Christ is risen...
...provincial days gone by as well as make a comment-as if one were needed-on how passionate idolatry can briefly unbalance youthful minds. To that end he requires poor Richard Thomas, known herein as Jimmy J., to strip, smear himself with river mud and encourage his pals to join him in a fake primitive rite designed to put them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic...
...most promising students in the School of American Ballet were tapped to join the corps of Balanchine's New York City Ballet, and the hope of catching Mr. B's eye spurred every young dancer on. "You cared more than anything in the world how you were impressing him," says Gelsey. When she was 15, Gelsey danced in a school production of Bournonville's Flower Festival. Dancer Villella was among the many who were impressed: "Already she was capable of making her own comment on the choreography, which usually takes many years to do." She joined Balanchine's company...
Disillusion was immediate. "The severed heads changed my political disposition," recalled Chateaubriand, until then a disciple of Rousseau and a believer in the brotherhood of man. Rather than join the exodus of conspiring nobles, he conjured up his own plot: a voyage to America. "What's the use of emigrating from France? I'm emigrating from the world," he declared. Another storm followed him to sea; he had himself lashed to the mast and shouted his delight to the elements. His fellow passengers thought him mad-and they may have been right...