Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth-floor rehearsal room at Manhattan's City Center, the cast of St. Louis Woman has gathered to run through the first act of the 1946 Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical. "Lord knows what happens next!" bellows Chuck Cooper, a Tony Award-winning actor from The Life. What happens next is a little theater magic. Vanessa Williams enters, slithers onto a straight-backed chair and sings Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home. This tune is a taunt, a turf marking and a declaration of sexual independence in 32 bars. And with Williams, a young star of CDs, movies...
...overcast afternoon, in a modest room in Minneapolis, 23 teenagers are in earnest conversation with one another--and with the Lord. "Would you pray for my brother so that he can raise money to go [on a preaching trip] to Mexico?" asks a young woman. "Our church group is visiting juvenile-detention centers, and some are scared to go," explains a boy. "Pray that God will lay a burden on people's hearts for this...
...final embrace. The club serves as an emotional bulwark for members dealing with life at a school where two students died last year in off-campus gunfire. Today a club member requests prayer for "those people who got in that big fight [this morning]." Another asks the Lord to "bless the racial-reconciliation stuff." (Patrick Henry is multiethnic; the prayer club is overwhelmingly white.) Just before Easter the group experienced its first First Amendment conflict: whether it could hang posters on all school walls like other non-school-sponsored clubs. Patrick Henry principal Paul McMahan eventually decreed that putting...
...street, I straighten my back, hoping to disguise imperfections that this outfit does nothing to hide. Slut clothes are bad for the nerves, but good for posture. I click-clack my way into the UC office to pick up posters. Good lord, the Vice President and Campus Life Committee Chair are schmoozing on the couch--will they ever think of me the same way again? I hide behind some boxes and mutter a hello. These shoes are killing...
Mahon's star attraction is its fabulous natural harbor, three miles long and big enough to shelter a whole fleet of ships. The legendary British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island...