Word: swiveling
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Reagan takes his black leather swivel chair, while Meese and Baker perch on either side of the massive oak desk...
...convert mechanically from proscenium to theater-in-the-round staging. To switch from conventional to arena staging, the first 100 seats in the center of the orchestra can be removed (manually) and placed on bleachers on the regular stage. Giant plates under the right and left orchestra sections swivel those seats around so that they now face each other over an intervening gap. That gap is filled when hydraulic jackets lift a new stage floor. The result is a circle-in-the-square, with seats on all four sides. For students of theater, this double capability is particularly valuable: they...
...vinegar." They want to change the world. They want to build and create a UTOPIA so the poor and the downtrodden will no longer suffer. What a joke! They come to Harvard with beautiful thoughts--and that is to help humanity--and they wind up sitting in a swivel chair in some big Corporation screwing the poor and the helpless...
...establishment is owned by a woman-a former bank clerk named Glenda Brewer-but here male customers are banned from the club during the two-hour show. What they miss is a group of dancers called Fast Freddy and the Playboys, who strip down to bikini briefs and then swivel through the throng, always staying slightly clad and out of reach. "I think they're terrific," says Kay Love, 45, a factory worker. "Men see it all. Why can't the women?" Adds Marsha Stempien, 21: "It's our night out. We don't have...
...believed in discipline, and discipline began with himself. He knew his mind. He made quick decisions and stuck to them. Confronted with a problem, a plea, an argument-he always allowed room for argument-he would tilt back in his swivel chair, eyes on the ceiling, hands clasped behind his head...