Word: makin
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...every stage changeover, the lights are dimmed and the music blares out. This would have provided a perfect transition between the scenes were it not for the sometimes-incongruous mood of the music with the preceding drama--Shakespeare's emotional fireworks are diminished when they are followed by "Makin' Whoopee...
...mother, Sharon M. Khaw, a member of Friends of Burma and an anthropology student at the Extension School, said Adam particularly enjoyed the sanhwey makin, a Burmese cake made with semolina and raisins...
...every day. He was neither examined nor treated for psychiatric illness. There Shaw was put under the direction of guard Walter Farrow, 61, who seemed to get along well with his prisoner. Bobby Shaw remembers his assignment with some excitement. "I was peelin' potatoes. I was runnin' the machine, makin' French fries, scalloped potatoes. Corn had to be snatched off the cob. Lettuce and cabbage had to be cut." He remembers nothing else...
...last thing I wanted to do. I hated being tied down." But it was Mahl who kept his hope alive when he wanted to quit Nashville for a while, look for a regular job back home in Oklahoma and maybe try the music business again later. "I'm not makin' this trip every year," she told him. "Either we're diggin' in, or we're goin' home for good." They dug in, and six months later Brooks signed with Capitol Records. "I am so thankful to God and Sandy," Brooks says. "It turned out real well...
...contrast to a 22.6% drop in the Dow, giving credence to the notion that Japan was a special, blessed case. In the final analysis, though, the Tokyo market appears as vulnerable as any other to the laws of supply and demand. "It was a classic bubble," says John Makin, director of fiscal policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington...