Word: spill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money-$10 million by the Administration's estimate-to crank up the registration machinery, and it would have to approve any White House request to register women. Such a request would set off one of the bitterest fights of the legislative session, and one that would surely spill over into both the presidential and congressional election campaigns...
Stenmark's preparations for the Olympics were derailed last September when he took a hair-raising spill at Val di Senales, Italy, while practicing the downhill, of all things. He suffered a brain concussion and was unable to resume snow training for several weeks. "I've never before started so late in the year," says he, "but I'm not worried." But after his disappointing performance at Innsbruck in 1976-he managed only a bronze in the giant slalom-Stenmark is wary of making medal predictions. "The margins of victory are so small and accidental occurrences...
Table Settings is a modest but thoroughly engaging entry in this category of the lovable kooks en famille. All the action takes place around dinner tables. While the characters do relatively little eating, they sure do spill the beans. The basic ethnic unit and the flavor of the humor are New York Jewish. The play is being presented at Manhattan's off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons Theater...
Andre spent the following years experimenting with different materials and environments in his work. At a gallery in New York he dropped 800 plastic blocks from a canvas bag and, letting gravity arrange them, called it "Spill." For "Joint" he lined up a row of hay bales across a field in Vermont. The timber, granite, and metals now assembled in Boston reflect his childhood years near the shipyards and stone quarries of Quincy, Mass...