Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...
...repertory is the second act of Spartacus, which closes the "Highlights" program. The choreography is little more than an astounding series of leaps and runs. Mukhamedov's entrance is a cadenza of high, bullet- fast jumps. He becomes a projectile of the Roman slaves' insurrection, ending the torrid first scene by rushing downstage to the footlights in an embodiment of bloodlust. But he is no caricature. Mukhamedov's manner is actually diffident, almost impersonal, and this modesty adds a human, even modern, scale that counterbalances his explosive feats...
...delightful and painful to see your coverage of the Tibetan Guru Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, whose body was cremated in Vermont ((AMERICAN SCENE, June 22)). The story was delightful because, laced as it was with cynicism, it was the kind of article Rinpoche would have enjoyed and appreciated. On the other hand, the coverage was painful because so many of us who are his followers apparently came off as self-absorbed and condescending. We know that we are not free of such attitudes, but they certainly...
...Cambridge police officer on the scene helped Fogarty when the incident occurred, but the officer did not obtain license plate information about the vehicle which struck Fogarty...
...scene replayed thousands of times each evening in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and burgeoning suburbs nationwide, the last guests for a 7:30 dinner straggle in 40 minutes late, muttering their astonishment -- but not, significantly, their apologies -- that it took them 90 minutes to drive ten miles. Their woes inevitably inspire the other guests to a round of competitive traffic horror stories that continue well into the entree...