Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mood is on her, Rachel goes cruising, though she puts the matter even less romantically: "I go out, seek companions, bear them home . . . No bourgeois sentiments for me, no noble passions." Elsewhere, Anita Brookner's questionable heroine pitches her case more strongly: "I had resolved at a very early stage never to be reduced to any form of emotional beggary, never to plead, never to impose guilt, and never to consider the world well lost for love. I think of myself as a plain dealer and I am rather proud of the honesty of my transactions...
...real estate (16 states) than any other Republican contender ever had on a single day. That gave Bush just over 700 delegates, vs. 165 for Dole; only 1,139 are needed for an absolute majority. Bush thus has a stronger grip on the nomination than Reagan did at this stage in 1980. "This is something historic," said Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater. "There will never be another regional primary with this sort of conclusive impact." Bush began to sound credible Tuesday night when he told supporters in Houston, "I'm now convinced I will be the President...
...animated diorama of 1830s concert life, a full panoply of period instruments thrillingly revived under the banner of musical authenticity. Assembled on the stage of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall last week were ranks of gut-stringed violins, wooden flutes, valveless horns, leather-headed kettledrums and even a pair of ophicleides (bass keyed bugles since supplanted by tubas). Standing before them, feet on the ground but soul in the sky, was Norrington, at 54 newly emergent as a formidable leader in the early-music movement...
...thinking I really am a puppet, including Anne Schedeen, who plays the real-life Kate Tanner, and the guy who plays Willie, this dithery product of Hesitation ( School named Max Wright. He must have mastered the Dramatic Pause (wake me up at half time!) during his years on the stage at places like Yale and Harvard, schools as prestigious as Podunk and Dingaling on Melmac. Listen to him drivel: "There are moments when ALF's reality is so overwhelming, you have to catch your breath. He picked up a lingerie catalog one day, and you could see his blood changing...
...group's real challenge may not be in garnering audience appreciation as much as finding a welcome stage...