Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wait a minute, though! What happens when the other side decides to put on a show itself? What happens when they countersubversively decide to use the Rascals' best weapon--amateur audacity and charm--to win mass approval for themselves? Crafty kids. They ask dad the best way to raise the money, and they ask mum if they can borrow the interior decorator to do the sets and they hire a Professional Director to choreograph the kick line. But No Girls Allowed, so some of the kids stuff their skirts with petticoats and put on phony busts. Step kick kick, step...
...pored over every budget detail. Lance has turned most of the day-to-day supervision over to Deputy Director James Mclntyre, who served as Georgia's budget director under Carter. Says Lance: "I don't want to make any decisions someone else can make. I'll wait and deal with the tough ones." Informal, he sometimes answers his own telephone. Says he: "I'll talk to anyone. It's important for me to be accessible...
...highlight of Lillian Carter's trip was a four-hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself...
...does not so much deliver her speeches as pour them out and then wait for them to sparkle into laughter. Such moments do not occur often enough, and neither she nor the rest of the fine cast can make a real play out of Guare's imaginative disorder. Gerald Clarke
...partial operation. Perhaps a third of the 1.8 million employees who had been idled by cold-related shutdowns went back to their jobs. But some workers, such as the more than 3,000 watermen who harvest oysters in Maryland's still iced-over Chesapeake Bay, may have to wait longer to resume earning money, and industries in the Pacific Northwest, confronting a drought that is undermining hydroelectric generating capacity, face power cuts...