Word: impromptue
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Akalaitis last night defended the right of directors to stray from absolutely faithful performances of the text. "The most boring production of Beckett was directed by Beckett," she said in a wide ranging impromptu discussion...
Jordan's move came during a week of heightened diplomatic activity in the Middle East. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who had hastened to Beirut to investigate the Sept. 20 truck bombing of the U.S. embassy, turned his trip into an impromptu regional tour. After spending a day in the Lebanese capital, Murphy visited Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo and Amman on what he called a "mission of exploration." Murphy was primarily seeking a way to speed a withdrawal of the 22,000 Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said last week that he would like...
...Mondale much in the polls, it may have stemmed further erosion. Many reporters watching Ferraro on the stump feel that the excitement she generates at almost every stop may translate into an unexpectedly large number of votes for the ticket in November, particularly among the Yuppies. Typical was an impromptu rally last week in a hotel lobby in conservative Spokane, Wash.: it was so jammed that the fire marshal had to turn away 300 to 500 people, but most waited around for 40 minutes just for a glimpse of Ferraro...
...last week, anxiously awaited the finals between its women's volleyball team, world champions in 1982, and the U.S. Factories and offices came to a stop for a live telecast. When China clinched the gold, the country erupted in joy. Fireworks rocketed into the sky. In Peking an impromptu convoy of bicyclists waving flags headed for the U.S. embassy; security guards kept them from getting too close, but the crowd was in a jubilant mood. Even matters of state were momentarily put aside: the volleyball result was passed on to Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang in the midst...
...said Nabila Khalil, 23. "Some soldiers stopped him and said they wanted to ask him a few questions. I haven't seen or heard from him in 14 months." One episode occurred often enough to become a sort of national nightmare: militiamen would set up an impromptu checkpoint, stop a car and discover the driver belonged to an enemy sect. Sometimes the motorist would be shot, sometimes he would be hustled away and executed later...