Word: preciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billed as "an evening of 1920s black vaudeville," the show is a kind of nostalgic tribute to black performers who toured the pre-Depression South on the T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Booking Agency) circuit. Fortunately, there is precious little vaudeville in One Mo' Time!and no imitations of greats like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sweet Mama Stringbean, who made their early fame on the circuit. The setting is New Orleans' Lyric Theater. A backstage dressing-room drama, replete with the trials and tribulations of show biz and some seething personal rivalries, constitutes the subplot picture frame...
...America is left to ponder their most recent phenomenon. No one--Mick Jagger, FDR, John Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Carter, or Lucky Lindy--ever sucked the love and respect out of so many people in one meeting, at first sight, with so few and precious words and movements as John Paul II did in one week...
...past year especially, investment in precious metals, gems and real estate has seemed almost too good to be true...
...Precious stones are also being snatched up, though unwary investors can lose disastrously. In the past year, high-grade "investment diamonds" of one carat or more have risen 45% in value and now often sell for $31,000 per stone. But smaller and flawed gems, which are normally sold only for jewelry to hide the imperfections, may be poor buys; four quarter-carat, lesser-quality stones are usually worth much less than a single good-quality, one-carat stone...
...that may be caused by cataclysmic events in the heavens - they hope to achieve a goal whose proof has so far eluded Western scientists: unambiguously detecting the gravitational waves forecast by Einstein's general theory of relativity. Why is a nation still struggling to meet basic needs investing precious yuans and talent in such far-out endeavors? Explained Fang Yi: "We consider basic research fundamental to all scientific progress...