Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancers' world which makes Mazo's book fascinating. He has faithfully recorded where the Company members live (West 69th Street), where they eat (O'Neal's), what they do in their spare time (movies and crossword puzzles), their pre-performance rituals (a touch on the shoulder and a good-luck wish of "merde"), even the contents of the candy machine in the dancers' lounge. What would otherwise be trivialities accumulate to form a tantalizing mosaic of a way of life which demands the dedication of a monastery and the loyalty of a fuedal fiefdom...
...Among the principals: the incomparable Lizzie, a daydreamy beautiful loser, "punchball" for many lovers, whose flaws prove even more compelling than her easy virtue: "not just the claw marks on her chin, but her lines of travel, and of strain ... honourable scars from all the battles against her bad luck and her bad judgement." Connie Sachs, Circus Sovietologist beyond compare, "a huge, crippled cunning woman, known to the older hands as Mother Russia." Fawn, Smiley's recessive factotum and "scalp hunter"?professional killer; Craw, an old China hand of archbishoprical speech and mien, shamelessly based on the form...
...tragic luck would have it, Davenport suffered a fractured vertebra at the base of his neck last week against Columbia while plunging in for Harvard's first touchdown in the second quarter. He is now out for the season...
Indeed, the only problem with the performance was that it came against a floater-throwing Lion quarterback. With any luck, Harvard would have picked off another three or four of his passes, Restic said...
McLaughlin has his hands full. The basketball program is in a sorry state, and while the ex-Fordham star has the intensity and know-how to win, he doesn't have the talent. Good luck, Frank, you'll need...