Word: side
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...
...often trips up directors. This production's director, Scott Goldsmith, however, masterfully sidesteps a problem that plagues many musicals: uneven singing, acting or dancing, by performers cast for their talent in only one area. Cabaret's strength lies in a group of multi-talented performers who never let any side of the show down, handling its weighty acting demands as skillfully as the song-and-dance numbers...
Those lyrics have entered the popular imagination as a paean to the decadent life. Cabaret shows not just the free-and-easy side, but the slide into darkness that goes along with it. The Leverett House production doesn't neglect one side for the other...
Should the special prosecutor want to talk to Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the Times, about the leak, Rosenthal would want "six lawyers at my side." The Times officials hesitate to discuss the subject publicly for fear of prejudicing any later legal claim to the right to remain silent. But it is not hard to discover the Times's attitude. It frequently knows and doesn't publish the news that prominent figures are under investigation. What made Abscam different, the Times feels, was the sheer size and expense of the FBI operation, almost like a Bay of Pigs...
When he and Syrie divorced in 1929, Maugham had already established residence on the Riviera with his secretary-lover. Gerald Haxton was a sociable charmer, but he was also unscrupulous, a gambler and a drunk. "Their relationship," writes Morgan, "had a dark, unpleasant side in which the roles of master and servant were interchanged and each tried to make the other suffer." When Haxton died in 1944, his place was taken by Alan Searle, a lower-keyed companion who enjoyed reading muscle magazines...