Word: took
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...time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music, a raucously jazzy score by another boy wonder named Leonard Bernstein, had MADE IN THE U.S.A. stamped on every page. Jerome Robbins took two dozen curtain calls that spring night in 1944, and never looked back...
...terms, meaning no personal questions. Though his homosexuality was an open secret, he never discussed it in public, going so far in 1951 as to become engaged to the ballerina Nora Kaye. (They never married. Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage.) It took a subpoena to get him to talk about his private life: he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 about his involvement with a communist group of the '40s, naming eight other party members. "I feel I'm doing the right thing as an American," he explained...
Fighting off a cold, the stuffed-up Seinfeld took swigs from a water bottle and periodically checked his talking points on a sheet of wrinkled yellow paper, jumping from topic to topic with a disjointed rhythm that diminished his chances of building up a rolling momentum. The first fusillade of jokes--how "woos" and "yips" have replaced laughter at shows--was classic Seinfeld: gently humorous observations. Then comedy leapfrog. A few comments about death segued into a bit on how the closest equivalent we have to royalty in America is the people who get to ride in electric carts...
...examination technique as "going for the jugular." But if he's prepared to be a tough legal mind, he remains profoundly reticent about the political role he may be asked to play. "Every once in a while it hits you," Schippers has said. "It really hit me when I took my wife to the Jefferson Memorial. If you stand at Mr. Jefferson's feet and you look where he's looking, you see right into the Oval Office. It kind of hit me right then. I thought, 'Oh, God. I pray that it doesn't happen.'" But if it does...
...been lavishly rewarded for serving a particular political master. He has never made a serious attempt to engage his black opponents in a serious debate about his ideas. He owes his meteoric rise exclusively to the patronage of conservative white Republicans with little interest in racial equality. They first took notice of Thomas in 1980 when he cruelly--and falsely--accused his sister of becoming dependent on welfare. As Ronald Reagan's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he poured disdain on affirmative action--even though it helped him get admitted to Yale Law School. When George Bush...