Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous, unperformed musical to his credit; in counterbalance, the composer tapped the veteran director Hal Prince, 59, who * had contributed so much to the success of Evita. Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Jokers. "The moment...
...when the call came in for the San Francisco junket, one thought in particular swayed my mind: that there was no way, no possible way, that San Francisco could be as cold as Boston...
...that awful morning-after feeling that comes from a combination of guilt and alcohol poisoning. True, I had escaped the city that spawned Michael Dukakis for three precious days. True, in that time the thermometer had risen back into the positive numbers. But somewhere in the back of my mind I wondered if I had lived up to my obligations. Might I have tried just a little bit harder to wring a few more drops of alcohol from the mini-bar? Might I have pressed a little bit harder for an expense account receipt from the topless bar? Mightn...
With that in mind, the Elis have put Wellesley and Beaver College of Pennsylvania on next year's schedule...
...there is no doubt in my mind that, had we been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a political master of our fates should be asked, first of all, not about how he imagines the course of our foreign policy, but about his attitude towards Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoyevski...