Word: cavorted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Finally, nobody ever really wants a scandal cleared up. Uncleared-up, a scandal is like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...
...Popeye for a while, as Robin Williams did while making a Robert Altman film about the old gob, set for release in December. Not only did the actor have to master a vocabulary of malapropisms far more complex than the nano-nanos of Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak in what he describes as a Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall...
...ways compensate for emergencies and injuries; the company is hard-hit right now. On the night of the Ballade premiere, both men who dance The Steadfast Tin Soldier, also on the program, could not perform. The company got a little help from an old friend, Mikhail Baryshnikcv. Watching him cavort through the part, one could not help thinking that he, as much as any other dancer, suffered lost opportunities because of Balanchine's illness...