Word: marooning
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It’s three o’clock on a damp Friday afternoon, and Menendez is urging Ros to change from her green T-strap shoes to her pink galoshes before the two venture out into the rain. Dressed down in maroon Juicy sweatpants, a cable-knit sweater and a puffy black jacket, Menendez seems unfazed by the downpour. “Umbrellas are for slackers,” she says...
...stage door opens and iconic figures spill into the Soho street: a plump, old-fashioned bobby, who proceeds to direct traffic; a chorus line of chimney sweeps; and finally, a maroon-coated nanny who shivers on the sidewalk and seems in need of a little magic. The cause of all this commotion is a fire alert at the Prince Edward Theatre, which has interrupted rehearsals for the most eagerly awaited musical of this West End season - Mary Poppins. The nanny isn't quite ready to fly. During TIME's backstage visit a week before the Dec. 15 opening, co-producer...
...Callbacks, who also performed at New’s daughter’s Bat Mitzvah last spring, sang three songs, all of which were punctuated by personal speeches and toasts from friends of Summers. They began with “Sunday Morning,” a popular song by Maroon 5, then sang a new take on a classic, “Ain’t No Sunshine (When He’s Gone),” and finally, “Happy Birthday...
Boys and girls dressed in khakis and maroon sweaters walk silently across the campus in tidy lines. Speaking out of turn is forbidden. All activities are directed toward correcting old bad habits. Tony Robbins' self-improvement tapes are played during meals, and the teens spend hours charting their behavior. Instead of receiving classroom instruction, they work their way through a self-guided academic curriculum. Residents who follow the rules move through the program's progress levels and are granted more leniency; those who disobey receive demerits and lose privileges. About 20% of the students are on behavior-related medications, prescribed...
...group on the footbridge that attracted a lot of attention was the club team from Amsterdam, whose rowers wore shabby maroon blazers handed down from generation to generation. The strapping Dutchmen were delighted to practice and compete along the Charles for a week, but they lamented the fact that “in Holland, there would be beer everywhere.” They hadn’t found any along the Charles...