Word: rears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plant on the Thames' South Bank is a marvel of sophisticated technology and congenial amenities for actors and audiences alike. For theatergoers, there are seven bars, two cafeterias and a restaurant. Backstage facilities include scenery workshops that run the full rear length of the building and rehearsal rooms large enough to contain a play's sets. For the actors, there are 135 air-conditioned dressing rooms. The playing areas of the theaters will also be air-conditioned...
...biggest scandal, possibly accounting for more than $1 billion in waste, involves top navy officers responsible for military-spending programs. Rear Admiral Ramzi Abass Attaei, once commander of the Iranian navy, has been broken to captain. Other high-ranking officers have been jailed, and one navy budget officer committed suicide in prison-reportedly by swallowing a bedsheet...
Tucked in a rear corner of the IAB, the wrestling room is as obscure as the sport is at Harvard. The room is dark, damp, and hot. "There are just too many things at Harvard more exciting than working here all winter," Lee said, "especially when you're not winning...
...provided by Havana form part of President Sékou Touré's bodyguard in Guinea. Cuban bureaucrats supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
...aisle door opened quietly. A large man padded gracefully in and paused behind the standees at the rear of the orchestra floor. He peered intently at the stage and listened. His blue shirt was open at the neck, and over it he wore a bright red cardigan. He could have been a stagehand out for a stroll. Instead, James Levine, the new music director of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his rounds. It was the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville. Levine had seen and heard it countless times before. That did not matter...