Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, of course, Manhattan's 175-room Carlyle, where a regular patron's tastes-in marmalade or Matisse-are faithfully recorded and indulged on each visit. San Diego's 223-room Westgate will summon private butlers if desired. New Orleans offers the 100-room, family-run Pontchartrain Hotel, with one of the country's best Creole restaurants. Boston's pride is the 257-room Ritz-Carlton, where a houseman will lay a fire in one's suite to soften the shock of a New England winter...
...thud which sounded like a stone hitting the windshield." This may have been the sound of Jordan slumping against the car. "Help me, I've been shot!" he cried. When she saw him wounded and bleeding, she dashed inside the motel and asked the desk clerk to summon police and an ambulance. Then she called her lawyer...
This disorientation is reinforced by one of the strong elements in the production, the sets. They are fashioned with billowing flair by PierLuigi Samaritani and meticulously painted in Italy. Samaritani is experienced in designing sets for operas. His visions gloriously summon up the richness of legendary India, but sometimes overpower delicate, intricate movements. In scale and detail they seem more suited to leisurely appreciation during a long aria...
Such scenes open a little trap door at the base of the brain. From that ancient root cellar they summon up dark, flapping fantasies of revenge. During the six-month imprisonment of their hostages, Americans have on the whole reacted with a surprising forbearance toward the Iranians. But beneath the surface they have marinated in an odd, atavistic cross-cultural rage. Their anger has been ripened by the long spectacle of their nation's ineffectuality and the humiliation of the failed rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming...
Sophomore ace Greg Myers (2-1, 1.04 in EIBL) is slated to start, but Big Red coach Ted Thoren can summon Jay Kebylarz (3-0, 1.64) and John Jameson (2-0, 1.93) from the bullpen at the first sign of trouble. All three have baffled Eastern League hitters during the campaign, with Myers hurling especially well; he has allowed only twelve hits and seven walks in 26 innings while striking...