Word: liven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vinogradov, 44, is now working on a ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans...
...pallor has been as unnatural as most of the players' reactions are to anything. New concepts of golf courses: "stadium" golf, "target" golf. New shades of golf balls: orange and lime ones that resemble kumquats and brussel sprouts rolling along the yard. In an unusual attempt to liven things up and make himself distinguishable from the other blonds, Jerry Pate has actually taken to throwing himself into water hazards...
...rich people in town, but there's nowhere for them to live. And there's a guy who plays trumpet on the wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like one of those sea scenes from Woolworth...
...ranter or a raver-he's not even a talker. He's very proud of his successes, but he doesn't care about fame and fortune. He really doesn't. He's very easy to live with-I'm the maniac. I liven him up; he calms me down. Joe doesn't say a lot, but whatever he does say is interesting, thoughtful. He's funny-he makes me laugh. Still, I sometimes think that if he played football the way he conducts his life-well, he just wouldn...
...want my Kramer vs. Kramer, my Ordinary People," he said finally. What Burt Reynolds wants is his Oscar. And not just to liven up his man-telpiece. One of the biggest box-office bonanzas of all time, Burt Reynolds wants only to be recognized as a fine actor of his time. It seems almost a paradox, for as he was uttering those selfsame words, Reynolds was basking in the glory of the Smokey and the Bandit films--box chase 'em variety. You could almost hear the Academy snickering. When Cannonball Run, the world's craziest automobile show since the Wacky...