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Unlike the other actors, some of whom are auditioning for as many as 11 plays, I choose only one play. I choose it because it has the shortest waiting list...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Casting Aspersions: The Audition | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

...unusual cosmic dance. The combination of factors included syzygy (pronounced syz-uhjee), a twice-monthly condition in which the earth, sun and moon are most closely in alignment; perigee, when the moon is closest to the earth in its monthly orbit; perihelion, when the earth is at its shortest distance from the sun; and the tidal bulge caused by the moon when it reaches the southernmost point in its orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather: A Rare Cosmic Dance | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...longest orgy--on the music of Tchaikovsky--will consume 56 hours of air time, and the seven shortest orgies will take only two hours apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Begins Orgy Season | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Talk Writers At Work | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...youngest and shortest members of the Harvard women's basketball team, but freshman Heidi Kosh came away with the team's strongest performance last night as the Crimson defeated Smith, 74-52, in Northampton...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women Cagers Smite Smithies | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

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