Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel like a rookie again," enthused Bill Robinson of the Pittsburgh Pirates-their elation is tempered by understandable bitterness. Says Orioles Owner Williams: "The strike was unnecessary. It should never have happened. This must never, never, happen again." Expos Pitcher Steve Rogers sums it up: "Anytime you stand toe-to-toe with illogical viewpoints and you try to use logic, there will be frustration, and frustration breeds bitterness...
...skating-two very young lovers etching their joy on a pond by moonlight. This is a charming little lyric that never takes itself, or figure skating, seriously. Still, in the subtle use of half-and three-quarter-point work for the radiant Kistler, Robbins manages to give toe shoes the rocking balance of a skate blade...
Stage Director Jack Eddleman's predilection for repeating certain stage pictures-such as lovers lying head to toe -was ultimately predictable. But Eddie-man was right in pointing up some of the decadence of Nero's reign: although the opera ends with the marriage of Nero and Poppea, set to one of the most beautiful love duets in operatic literature, Nero was, historically, not a man to be trusted. He later kicked the pregnant Poppea to death, and once married a boy-but only after he ordered the youth to be castrated...
...first big-time record in 1977. Big time and big business are not necessarily the same, however, and although the personnel in the band have changed, Ely's hot-poker music still gets the same puzzled reception from any audiences and executives who expect a country singer to toe the redneck line...
Brecht never underestimated the latent power of masochism. One can only kick a stone so many times before one breaks one's toe. Shlink, a wily masochist, turns over his lumber plant to Garga and thus entraps him. Garga must now buy and sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves...