Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this brings me to the second point, my second reason why I decided to give this interview. That reason is that time is passing, and it might be too late. The train might have already left the station. If we are realists--and we hope we all are, we all want to live, none of us wants to be destroyed --then we must muster the political will and the wisdom and stop this process, and begin the process of eliminating weaponry, and the process of improving, invigorating relations between the Soviet Union...
...supergladiators,' with the only thought in mind being how best to deal a deft blow at the opponent." He implied that the U.S. is deliberately trying to engineer a failure. There is still time to prepare to reach specific agreements, but not much time, he said. In fact, "the train might have already left the station...
...Folks, this is Pearl," boomed the familiar voice after Amtrak's Chicago-to-New York train collided last week in the middle of the night with a stalled truck and derailed near Mansfield, Ohio. The unofficial conductor was Pearl Bailey, 67, traveling to Manhattan to chair the opening of the 1985 Christmas Seal ceremonies. Talking through a loudspeaker, the veteran singer soothed jangled nerves among the 425 passengers. After two more days of traveling, Bailey hit a traffic jam outside New York City. Christmas Seal officials who had spotted Dolly Parton, 39, having lunch asked her to stand...
...misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments of type and stenciled numbers, snatches from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England...
...Down the House, that cut straight through the dross on MTV. They were innovative and gratifyingly out of place. In a program of other rock videos, they looked as if Robert Wilson, en route to Einstein on the Beach, had opened the wrong studio door and stumbled onto Soul Train. It was, however, the release of a superb 1984 performance documentary movie, Stop Making Sense, and a sound-track album that marked the band's biggest breakthrough so far. Talk about psycho killers. Byrne showed up in his humongous, gleaming, wide-shouldered white suit, did a fancy two-step with...