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...looked impossibly easy. It was not: six weeks of rehearsal before every film, dozens of takes, worn-out shoes, bleeding feet. In 1981, Astaire looked back on his career for a TIME story I wrote. (I've borrowed some of that piece for this one). He told Correspondent Martha Smilgis that making the Fred-and-Ginger films was like "running the four-min. mile for six months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal. But then you'd get in a winning groove - a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong. The choreography...
Across Utah, people are praying that the Smarts will also be reunited with their daughter. Elizabeth's father Edward, a mortgage-investment broker, who looked increasingly worn and baffled all week, collapsed and was hospitalized by week's end. Although locals were phoning in tips at the rate of one a minute, police captain Scott Atkinson said on Friday that none had provided solid leads. Family members have not been ruled out as suspects, but police say they have been extremely cooperative...
...especially the small, scurrying kind, appear to feel anxiety. Humans have felt it since the days they shared the planet with saber-toothed tigers. (Notice which species is still around to tell the tale.) But we live in a particularly anxious age. The initial shock of Sept. 11 has worn off, and the fear has lifted, but millions of Americans continue to share a kind of generalized mass anxiety. A recent TIME/CNN poll found that eight months after the event, nearly two-thirds of Americans think about the terror attacks at least several times a week. And it doesn...
...realized that I was very worn down by the past seven years,” Appiah says. “It was not so much that I couldn’t do those things [at Harvard], but I could do them [at Princeton...
...Yard welcomed us, but Thayer Hall was our destination, old and daunting, the steps leading to the first floor were well worn and suffered from years of waxing. The suite to which I had been assigned was large enough. There was only one bedroom and this was rather small, but adequate, providing my roommate was congenial. The living room was fine and had a nice view of the Yard. It also had a view of some of the more modern Houses and these were the envy of many in Thayer. My roommate had not yet arrived but sounded fine...