Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next two years, as he writes, he will keep his office on Wasinngton's K Street. In the fall he will have another office up in New York City in the Aspen Institute. He will divide his tune between the two places, riding to the Washington airports in his new blue Mercedes, flying often in the small jets of friends like Nelson Rockefeller...
...year-old boat into a front runner, a conversion he hoped would prove contagious when he invited his Atlanta Braves baseball team to watch him race. Courageous had been sailed to the 1974 Cup victory by Hood, who this year planned to use it (with Turner as captain) for tune-up duty as Independence's sparring partner. But Hood reckoned without the cocky skipper's fierce competitiveness. "Everything...
...seated aboard the first airline on which you can get a little exercise while you fly," says a recorded voice. "I'll bet you didn't ever realize just how much life is still in those curves around your fanny!" And so, to the tune of such muscle-toning music as Strangers in the Night, passengers contract and tighten their muscles-starting with their toes and working up to their arms. Leg thrusts (under the seat in front) and shoulder rolls follow...
...affair with a charming but faithless acquaintance ends badly-and produces most of the novel's few patches of uncertain writing. Hannah's lover "begins to play on her body like a musician on an instrument" - a cliche that strikes a discordant note no matter what the tune...
...Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight control that they share with their creator. De Niro's eerie ability to fine-tune his diverse screen appearances while blurring his own may have added to his undeserved reputation as a Garboesque recluse. De Niro does not avoid the public; the public generally does not recognize...