Word: scoring
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American shoppers, whose spending represents two-thirds of the U.S. economy, hold the key to what happens next. And data released last week were encouraging on that score. Most major retailers said sales surged in July, for the seventh straight gain this year. "Our customers are happy to pay $3,000 for a Chanel suit or $800 for a Prada bag," says Nancy Husted, a spokeswoman for Denver's Neiman Marcus store. In Washington the Federal Reserve found vigorous spending across the country on items from housing to air travel. Barbara Szosz, a North Carolina travel agent, reports that...
...first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music, a raucously jazzy score by another boy wonder named Leonard Bernstein, had MADE IN THE U.S.A. stamped on every page. Jerome Robbins took two dozen curtain calls that spring night in 1944, and never looked back...
Gardiner and his top-notch musicians perform two versions of Symphony No. 4, one from 1841 and the more familiar 1851 score. Both are wonderful in these performances, even if the 1851 version has sacrificed a little boldness for greater texture. The set also includes a dazzlingly virtuosic performance of Schumann's Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra (1849) and two "almost" symphonies: the promising, never completed "Zwickau" Symphony, composed in his youth, and the Overture, Scherzo and Finale (1841), with its passages of surprising delicacy and elfin fantasy...
This is also a man who wrote a fan letter to a hostile witness because he knew the witness was telling the truth. Schippers says he's the kind of lawyer who prefers to "play it according to the rules" rather than bend them to score a point off a legal opponent. By that standard alone, Schippers, 68, may seem an anomaly within the Beltway. In fact, he came to Washington only in March, having grown up and spent most of his professional life in Chicago. He considered becoming a priest and attended Chicago's Quigley seminary. But he opted...
...becoming strippers, they also reinforce the idea that it is okay to judge a woman based on her body alone. I doubt any of the customers are interested in learning the group's average SAT score. By going to Big Al's they pursue some still existing male fantasy that somewhere out there at least some kinds of women are meant to be leered at and ogled...