Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure and punishing world of the pros. Among her competition for the eleven-person regular season roster is Indi ana's No. 1 draft choice, Dudley Bradley of North Carolina. A measure of the task facing Meyers: at 5 ft. 9 in., 135 lbs., she is 9 in. shorter and 60 lbs. lighter than Bradley, a man she will have to guard...
John Conklin's set (inspired by sketches by the late Rudolf Heinrich for Santa Fe's U.S. premiere of the shorter Lulu in 1963) captures the work's heartless, hypocritical milieu with a doorway here, a sofa or a plant there. All is gelid grays and greens except for the lurid red of Lulu's dress and wig. The stage is framed by two skeletal, metallic walls that recede almost to a vanishing point. In the final scene, when Lulu has ended up as a prostitute in a London attic, the walls suggest the street below...
...costumes for the goddesses Iris, Ceres and Juno, who sing a terzetto by John Morris and oversee a pretty ballet of nymphs choreographed by Kathryn Posin (though Freedman has needlessly abridged the text in order to extend the singing and dancing--needlessly, since only The Comedy of Errors is shorter, and this production has a running-time of only two and a quarter hours...
...Frank Shorter, 31, has often set the pace. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Yale graduate became the first American in more than 50 years to win the marathon, and the attention he received helped quicken interest in the running boom. In 1976 Shorter came back to win a silver medal in Montreal. His 140-mile training weeks left him little opportunity to support himself as a lawyer, however, so he challenged the Amateur Athletic Union's rules prohibiting sports-related income. In a precedent-setting case that has helped other athletes, Shorter convinced the A.A.U. that his manufacturing...
...m.p.g. Now Ford, too, has yielded. The final Mark V, last of Detroit's gas-gulping monarchs, came off the line at the company's Wixom, Mich., plant on June 8. Last week the plant turned out its successor, the Mark VI. It is 14 in. shorter, 800 lbs. lighter, gets 14 m.p.g., and is somewhat boxier in shape. Yet all is not lost for big-car lovers. Beside the mite-size models filling the highways today, even the down-sized Mark VI looks gargantuan...