Word: remarkable
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...BALLET IS WOMAN" IS GEORGE BALANCHINE'S MOST frequently quoted remark. Of course he was right. Enchanted bird, sleeping princess, sugarplum confection-the woman on her toes unlocks the mysteries of dance. It takes nothing away from male virtuosity, or the boost that Nureyev and Baryshnikov gave ballet, to say that female stars carry...
Carnesale's taste in show tunes aside, his remark revealed the real purpose of Streisand's invitation by the Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. Harvard, for all its cultural elitism, is no less star struck than the fans who swiped her used tea mug after the speech and huddled in the February cold to catch a glimpse of Streisand...
...massive culture gap between the congressional generations. New member Sonny Bono admonished his colleagues, most of them lawyers, for dallying over words when the public was crying for police protection. ``Sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on,'' Bono said. ``And pompously.'' His remark, coming as it did in the course of a discussion of constitutional rights, was met with stunned bipartisan silence. Nobody ever said the revolution was going to be easy...
Thompson's remark is surprising considering the relative ease with which eight Democrats won their races for U.S. House seats and with which U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 won his sixth term in the Senate...
Mike Ginsberg hails from Baltimore and pulls for the Orioles, Capitals, Bullets and those CFL Colts (Oops, Paul Tagliabue will probably sue me for that remark...