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...drove to St. Francis. We got totally lost and we showed up at 12:50 p.m. to play at 1 p.m. with no warm-up," co-captain Chip Hellar said...
...Women. "Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize and debate openly," she said. "It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of the peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions." (In a warm-up speech to a smaller group earlier today, the First Lady also attacked nations, notably China, that require abortions and sterilizations for population control.) "This was a very carefully calibrated speech," reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz. "Although it is a fairly strong attack, she made sure to mention abuses...
Compared with Edward Robb Ellis, Samuel Pepys was a man of few words. In the nine years (1660-69) covered by his famous diary, Pepys produced about 1,250,000 words. That would be a mere warm-up lap for Ellis. In 67 years of recording his life and era, he has filled 35,000 or so pages with more than 20 million words, thereby gaining entry to the Guinness Book of World Records as author of the world's largest diary...
Feld's choreography calls for the dancers to appear informally on stage to warm-up as the audience is being seated. This merging of representation and reality becomes a unifying force once the lights dim and the music starts...
...generation of conservatives. Kasich may be the only Congressman ever evicted from the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. (A misunderstanding, he says of the 1991 dustup at Washington's R.F.K. Stadium: he had been invited onstage by his friend, country star Dwight Yoakam, the Dead's warm-up act.) He has also been known to break up the monotony of long flights by unfolding his six-foot frame in the aisle and doing push...