Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best, "Outland" is a very poor parlor trip. At worst, it's "Bloom County" on crack...
...concept of having a performance in the intimate atmosphere of the salonstyle parlor at the French Library lent itself to one of the themes that Arnowitt himself emphasized in the program notes--the intensely personal nature of the works themselves and the private reaction that they arouse within the individual listener. However, the concert was better publicized than the organizers expected, forcing the overflow crowd to stand or sit awkwardly in the antechamber. While this might have been encouraging for the performer, greater consideration should have been given to the audience...
...meet his May 1 deadline). His self-reward was a cross-country train trip with wife Wanda and their four children (the youngest is a three-year-old daughter), plus Rodgers and his wife. Clancy, who shares his hero Ryan's aversion to flying, rented an entire Amtrak parlor car for the trip...
...spending in the local economy. Reductions have a roughly equal and opposite effect. On Long Island, for example, defense contractors have cut their work force of 60,000 by more than one-fifth since 1987. As a result, an estimated 26,000 other local workers, from pizza-parlor employees to department-store clerks, have lost their jobs...
...second genocide, consisting of the widespread destruction of Armenian churches and monuments throughout Turkey, is still occurring, Lucy Der Manuellian, a Tufts lecturer in Armenian Art and Architecture, told an audience of about 15 last night in Union Parlor...