Word: seat
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...best seat in the house for Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" wasn't for sale: it would have to have been suspended directly above the piano. Since Previn was conducting and playing, he found it necessary to remove the lid of his $100,000 Bosendorfer Imperial, yet by removing it he ensured that all his glorious sound would travel straight up, not out into the audience...
...preparation for this David-Goliath showdown, Kelly's father, Jim Black, chartered a bus that would eventually seat 50 of Kelly's supporters--her parents, her hometown fans and her former coaches--all of whom would make the five-hour trip from Atlanta...
...long as anyone can remember, it seemed that raines was destined to do something big in politics. he and steve pruzan, his high school debate partner, would talk seriously about the day raines might become the first black president. in 1977 a congressional seat opened up and pruzan began organizing a raines campaign. instead, raines took a job in the carter white house that included his first stint at OMB. when carter lost, raines went to work, making millions of dollars, first as a partner doing municipal finance at the manhattan investment house lazard freres. when the travel for that...
...snipped, "The Virgin just made another appearance." The public responded in kind. In 1964 LIFE magazine headlined her as "the most hated woman in America," a title she burnished as a badge of honor. Long after it passed on to Jane Fonda (and issues like atheism took a back seat to the Vietnam War debate), people of a certain age continued to follow O'Hair's story. They experienced a frisson when her son Bill, in whose name she originally brought suit, announced on Mother's Day 1980 that he had found God; they were vaguely aware that...
...remember exactly where I was when I heard--and so, I imagine, do all of you. It was Oct. 2, 1995 and I was in a taxi with a classmate on the way to Logan Airport to fly home for Yom Kippur. As we were chatting in the back-seat, we all of a sudden heard a newscaster's voice emerging out of the static fuzz of the cab driver's radio: "Once again ladies and gentlemen, the verdict in the O.J. Simpson case--not guilty...