Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colleagues and days of packing trunks for his business trips, a '50s housewife lapses into reverie. In her mind and in apparent actuality on stage, she slips his embrace, walks to the mirror and sees another woman. They look, smile, touch and ultimately dance a stately, sensual ballroom swirl of self-discovery...
Despite the swirl of controversy over the Harvard Semitic Museum and its restructuring, and my deep commitment to the future of the museum, and its return to its primary function as an archaeological museum, I have chosen not to speak publicly, but to remain in peaceful retirement. I am a long-time friend of most of the principals in the dispute, and have had no desire to hurt any one of them. I have written to Dean Jeremy R. Knowles expressing my hearty and unqualified approval of the report of the Advisory Committee to the Harvard Semitic Museum. In fact...
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...Peter Patrone, Heidi's longtime friend and "the best doctor under 40 in New York," Mike Efron fully developed his character without off-setting or being off-set by the swirl of other issues around him. In depicting Peter's decision to reveal his homosexuality to Heidi and in his response to the AIDS crisis--both dealt with in the midst of a play so laden with feminist concerns--Efron holds his own with captivating power. Efron's convincing combination of wit, cynicism and vulnerability made his character especially sympathetic to the audience. His final duet with Poreba...
...knows what the real numbers will be. There are many being cast about, but they swirl like the river. The first estimates run to $1.2 billion in flood damage. Barge owners claim $1 million a day in lost business. Meanwhile, the river's height is nearing the records set in 1965. In Davenport, Iowa, the waters were 7 ft. above flood level. In St. Louis they were 10 ft. above. There the precipitation over the past six months has been more than twice the amount in the same period in 1992. The past eight months have been the wettest...