Word: nods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pressler looks over at Violinist Isadore Cohen and Cellist Bernard Green- house, who nod and chuckle. The three men, otherwise known as the Beaux Arts Trio, are reminiscing about their precarious years on tour. It is something they do with almost the same warmth and brio as when they make music together...
...longer put money into a new play and send it on the road for seasoning. Instead, they will take an off-Broad way hit like The Elephant Man or Talley's Folly and move it to a larger house on Broadway. Thus, with what Cattaneo calls "a nod toward the future," Hamil ton asked Gene Saks, who directed such big budget hits as Same Time, Next Year and I Love My Wife, to stage Save Grand Central. "It's obvious I'm not here for the two-week run," Saks candidly admits. "We all hope it catches...
...they wanted to bring the Games back to their village. Over and over they trooped to meetings of the International Olympic Committee and submitted proposals, only to be snubbed for such fashionable Alpine resorts as Cortina and Innsbruck. When the I.O.C. agreed on an American site for 1960, the nod went to the Sierra Nevadas and Squaw Valley, but still the Lake Placid boosters kept returning, a shade from the Olympics' past that refused to be put to rest...
...black turban was carefully drawn over his forehead, and a well-cut dark gray cape, obviously his only self-indulgence, covered a light gray vest and a simple, collarless white shirt. Khomeini showed neither comprehension of nor interest in the brief introduction. There was no handshaking, merely a nod. He sat down, crosslegged, to take the first question?which, as usual, he ignored. Instead, he launched into an unbroken 20-minute monologue. He spoke in a soft voice, difficult to hear even from a foot or two away, and stared steadfastly at the floor all the while. Occasionally, his sensitive...