Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
Some plays are not made for New York, and On Golden Pond is one of them. "It's a lovely heartland play," says Arthur Cantor, one of the original producers. "West of Westchester, it apparently can't miss." Despite its failure on Broadway, it has become a favorite on the regional and summer-stock circuit. The original backers' investment of $240,000 was paid off last August; an average of $25,000 in royalties still comes in to the author every month from performances all over the world; and Cantor expects at least 10,000 amateur productions...
Ewing is not 3 ft. high, and the fussing around Georgetown throughout the tournament was enough to prompt Coach Thompson to house his team 87 miles from New Orleans in Biloxi, Miss., making him the first black on record to move to Biloxi for peace of mind. First-black distinctions are not what move him, however. When someone asked how it felt to be the first black coach in the Final Four, Thompson snorted: "I resent the hell out of that question. It implies I am the first black to be accomplished enough and intelligent enough to get here...
...play Paired against Clemson's Mark Dickson and Jean Degdunes, both among the top 20 college players in the nation, the Crimson due could manage only one set between them. In their defense, both Sands, and Beren were coming off of bouts with the flu, which forced them to miss valuable practice time last week...
Armani's cunning blends of invention and convention are seemingly offhand but ultimately tough to miss. The reason is that he has been instrumental not only in working out what people want to wear but in changing their attitudes about it. His clothes-even the ones with those damn airborne initials-are a kind of congenial tutorial in the applied science of emphatic understatement. He has educated the eye and eased the conscience by giving a new grace to informality. There may be nothing democratic about high fashion (consider those price tags), but Armani's design ideas suggest...