Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high price of beauty! From now on, if I buy such products I may be a fool, but at least I'll be an educated fool. Indeed, who's to say that the benefits of skin treatments are only skin-deep? One could say that a healthy mind starts with a healthy skin...
...full performance schedule through 1980. She will cut back. But some promises may be impossible to break, such as the San Diego Opera premiere next June of a new opera written for her by Gian Carlo Menotti. Sills has little administrative experience, but she has a sharp, well-organized mind. During the past seven months, she has spent every free moment trailing the City Opera managing director. Says she: "I have learned everything: how subscriptions work, how to read cash-flow statements, what makes the company tick. My head is so full of plans and ideas that...
...colleagues are locked in a furious struggle with almost the entire federal bureaucracy. The goal is to pare spending requests and put together a budget that will not exceed the $30 billion deficit that Carter has pledged. Congress is in a cutting mood, but may change its mind when specific sacrosanct programs come...
...face would become familiar to producers. A big break came when Critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lauren was "the prettiest theater usher" of the 1942 season. Off Broadway the spotlight was on Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Bacall danced with servicemen at the Stage Door Canteen, but her mind seems to have been exclusively on star wars...
...minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy and P.O. Wodehouse, and amusing about the mandarins of New York film reviewing. He goes awry when he tries to deal with Hemingway, perceiving the oafishness and neuroticism but for the most part missing the art. Never mind; for Sheed's work, the good word is an honest title. Describing his trade, the author writes: " 'Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail,' is how Sam Johnson, blues singer, described the writer's life." A lovely, far away phrase, that "blues singer...