Word: vies
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These days, as Carter and Kennedy campaign aides vie for her attention, she is having understandable difficulty in keeping track of the people who are trying to keep track of her. She has been phoned by local, regional and national Kennedy workers, who all urge her to help defeat the proposed rule that would require her to vote for Carter on the first ballot. To Ammons, the calls have become an overlapping blur. Says she: "They talk about ten minutes at a time, saying the same things, and I just don't hear them any more." But the calls...
...survivors of celebrities vie for a piece...
...every ten years with a cast of 800. A quarter of the town (pop. 4,800) takes part, working as stagehands, orchestra members, singing away in the huge chorus, or milling about as Roman soldiers or members of Jewish crowds. Many of the villagers know by heart, and vie bitterly with one another for a chance to play, the roles of Jesus, Mary, Judas, Pilate or one of the twelve Apostles...
...long-stemmed can-can dancers kick, whirl and cartwheel, split, shimmy and pirouette to Offenbach's rollicking La Vie Parisienne. In a reverse striptease, a comely Victorian lass in black stockings and garter belt dresses up in corset and crinoline for a grand occasion orchestrated by Strauss. The star of the show, callipygian Linda Bardot, clad mostly in a pearly headdress, twirls around under a filigreed umbrella, mouthing in puffick Cockney Oi'm Aownly aye Bird in aye Gilded Cayge. Between and after the twice-nightly shows, the place becomes a disco where the windows vibrate past midnight...
Though piano bars, jazz joints and discos abound in the Big Apple, the Rainbow Grill is the classiest cabaret today in a city that once boasted such lively nocturnal redoubts as the Blue Angel, Le Ruban Bleu, La Vie en Rose, the Latin Quarter, the Persian Room and Cafe Society Uptown and Downtown. The irony is that this topless tower should be in the heart of staid Rockefeller Center, built 45 years ago by a family not exactly famed for tripping the light fantastic. On the other hand, the Rockefellers have never been known to disapprove of profitability...