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...Great Thirst. By 1969, Mize had grown tired of Zapata, figuring that it had reached a point at which profits could not be raised fast. His goal is to double after-tax profits each year, which he has often managed to do. For a more promising base of operations, he chose land-rich Southdown, a company that Zapata controlled. In a complicated series of transactions, Mize made Southdown an entirely separate company, severing all its ties with Zapata. He also resigned from Zapata and named himself chairman of Southdown. Again Mize went back to making acquisitions, mostly in exchange...
...last shot we have of Junior's trip in this opening-credits sequence shows him waking up some ways from the road, by a rocky crag and a river where his horse can catch its thirst; the rider touches his wound, but moves right on, right to the outskirts of Prescott, to his father's land...
Thus, it was quite a fair shake, and welcome slake to my bear thirst, to see the Harvard Yard Players' production of "Winnie-the-Pooh." Lehman Hall turned into a huge livingroom, and Pooh and friends entered when Milne began telling a story for Christopher Robin. The atmosphere was warm and informal, because there was no stage to separate the actors from the first ring of children seated on the floor. This close range prompted almost spontaneous audience participation. The actors introduced themselves in individual conversations with the children, shook hands, danced and even had two of the children help...
...Stravinsky was actually more abstemious with words and less waspish and argumentative than the Craft collaborations suggest. Indeed, she maintains, many of the words are not Stravinsky's at all but Craft's. Libman calls into question Stravinsky's supposedly keen interest in new music, his thirst for prolonging feuds with colleagues and critics, his hard-edged style as a polemicist, even the authenticity of two recordings supposedly made by the composer...
...reading: "Develop a thirst for printer's ink and quench it by reading, for from books flows the fountain of youth found...