Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stulberg's style of conducting I compare to Notre Dame Cathedral: gaudy and over-stressed. His on-stage undulations and contortions proved self-indulgent and upstaging. His blatant "wind ups" before delivery completely destroyed the subtleties and nuances of the composition. I half expected a spot light to suddenly hit Stulberg and to discover that yes, indeed, he did have taps on his shoes...
Reeves seems to enjoy thumping them too much to quit, but his book exudes a pessimism about politicians as sour as the west wind from Jersey City. Like television, McDonald's restaurants and much else in American life, Reeves laments, electoral politics nowadayses geared less toward producing quality than ensuring blandness. He sees fewer capable leaders-even fewer gifted scalawags-and more dull, "least objectionable" alternatives: more Jerry Fords. Says Reeves: "I have seen the future, and it scares the hell...
...found a bird but it cost $185," remembers Sills. "At that price, I decided to call Sarah. Sarah said, 'Could you bring the bird close to the telephone?' So I brought it close and gave it a wind. Then she said to me, 'Now sing.' I said, 'Are you some kind of lunatic? I'm in a store full of people on Madison Avenue.' " What Sarah wanted was a bird that sang a cadenza Sills could imitate. And so Beverly chirped into the phone. The mechanical bird was bought and on opening night...
...next morning in Manhattan, when Keating dialed Dolphin Coach Don Shula at his home in Miami and asked: "Do we talk about next year?" Cautious, Shula told him to wait for .the legal issues to be settled. "It's pretty sad," sighed Keating. "They've taken the wind out of our sails." Said a weary Csonka bluntly: "It must be nice to be in a position to make the laws. Let's go ahead and take a double tax write-off on our tractors." With all meetings canceled, Csonka and Keating appeared on TV and returned...
Before the stage curtains opened again, the voices of Dylan and Baez came over the sound system harmonizing on "Blowin' in the Wind." The curtain came up and revealed them leaning into a shared microphone. "Bob Dylan and Joan Baez," Dylan barked in his best impressario voice into the applause that followed the song. They did a couple of more songs together, her arm draped casually around his neck, and then he left...