Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elton's trademarks is pounding the piano with his feet; another is throwing his piano stool in the general direction of the audience (but actually into the pit). He has been known to dye his hair orange or pink for some gigs, to bat tennis balls into the crowd, and once in Los Angeles he hired actors to dress as Queen Elizabeth, Frankenstein and Elvis Presley and wander around the stage. Whether this represents a display of unquenchable energy, the response of a sometime wallflower suddenly encouraged to be the life of the party, or just overripe showmanship...
...consultant to the Central Pennsylvania Open Pit Mining Association, Jones, now 70, has directed teams that have successfully planted 36 million trees on strip-mined land in 17 counties. His accomplishments have won over some formerly implacable foes of surface mining who now agree with Jones that the technique has its place-as long as the spoil banks turn green again. "Coal for today, timber for tomorrow," Jones says cheerfully...
...Mediterranean, it is not hard to understand Caramanlis's conception of a United Europe--without NATO and the U.S.--as an alternative to the current balance of power. The old framework is too rigid to contain the present multiplicity of societies. There is no longer a Communism to pit the Western system against--perhaps, as the late Greek Prime Minister. George Papandreou has written, even the term democracy is simply a euphemism and a way of confusing the mind...
...become involved. It's a really natural thing now; priorities don't even come into the question, he says. "I never consider throwing it out and studying. I remember helping this old couple, driving them to the hospital, and translating for them. It would get me in the pit of my stomach when I'd walk up the stairs to their apartment and the paint would come off in my hands. It is a very emotional experience for me. The anguish involved, the frustrations, the anger--the thrills." In contrast to Wong, whose efforts have covered the spectrum of social...
...Lady or the Tiger," is set in a medieval kingdom where justice is meted out in inimitable medieval fashion. Prisoners are cast into a pit where they must choose between two doors, one concealing a ferocious tiger, the other a homely damsel whom the unfortunate victim must marry. Actually, the procedure is more like something out of "Let's Make a Deal" than a medieval court of justice. In any case, the plot centers around the dilemma of Princess Barbara (Colleen McMahon), who falls in love with a soldier and must decide whether to give him to the beast...