Word: looms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example of a warm Calgarian, a grandmother named Jean Newsted, came scurrying along with a loom in one hand and a nervous-looking rabbit in the other. Just then the Soviet silver-medal ice-dancing team of Sergei Ponomarenko and Marina Klimova materialized by the happiest chance. Hastening up to them, Newsted explained through a handy interpreter that she was a weaver of Angora fur and had been so taken with Ponomarenko and Klimova's performance that two of her rabbits now bore their names. In fact, here in her arms was Benjamin Sergei. It is difficult to describe...
...Sometimes he imagined that he would swoop from his window into the park like a glider, landing gracefully, noiselessly before her. Off they would fly together, eventually to marry. But after a while he would leave her to test new waters, and she would write her life upon a loom...
Bolstered by a surreptitious 1984 recording of the Chopin Opus 28 Preludes, Feltsman's reputation grew even while he was in musical exile. In the gossipy world of concert music, word of prodigiously gifted Soviets zips along the grapevine allegro vivace; unheard Russians like Feltsman tend to loom large in the imagination of Western audiences eagerly seeking a new pianistic hero. Then reality sets in. For every Vladimir Ashkenazy, a brilliant pianist in both technique and taste, there have been disappointments like the vapid Youri Egorov and the clangorous Lazar Berman...
...question that has drawn little attention so far but will loom large over the summit is whether the Senate can be persuaded to ratify an INF treaty. Both sides have tended to assume that a pact acceptable to a President as conservative as Reagan would whistle through easily, but there are already warnings that ratification will be no cinch. If a treaty is signed in November, ratification debates may begin next February, precisely when the primary campaigns in both parties will be approaching fever pitch. The treaty could well come under fire from an odd coalition of Republican conservatives distrustful...
...typical Sunday-night amateur show at the Improvisation comedy club in Los Angeles. Five minutes onstage for a blond dwarf who joked about her "white evening gowns made by Fruit of the Loom." Another five minutes for a purported Indian mystic called Ramogosh, who closed his act with a Sinatra- style rendition of I Did It Buddha's Way. After a parade of two dozen such neophytes, the audience of 200 was ready for some professional comedy -- and ecstatic when, at a quarter to 11, Jay Leno bounded onto the stage...