Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This section for national press only," said the Vietnamese usher. At this the second-stringer from Washington leaned over to me and whispered, "Did you hear that? The national press is here...
...Imperial Palace has in less than five years become something of a national pilgrimage site. In 1987 roughly 1 million schoolchildren, who would previously have been taken to Japan's great historical sites, were brought to the park. Last week, as people across the nation gathered at shrines to usher in an auspicious New Year, Tokyo Disneyland stayed open for 36 straight hours, serving as a kind of alternative temple. By day's end 200,000 votaries had observed the country's most important holiday at its favorite playland...
...once I entered the theater, I forgot all this. Ticket clenched in my hand as I poked it out at the usher, I felt the once-familiar tremor of seeing a show. Beneath the domed murals of the main hall, people sipped champagne from slender glasses, and children were seen--not heard. Grandmothers' wrinkled hands locked with their grandchildren's small, pink fingers. Inside the theater was the matinee atmosphere I associated with The Nutcracker. Adults called across seats to one another, and children skipped up and down the aisles in a rush of anticipation...
Under the pressure of dismal economic conditions, Jaruzelski has already begun to usher in some reforms. In a move to consolidate the country's bloated bureaucracy, for example, the regime trimmed 31 government ministries down to 23, eliminating 3,000 jobs. Some analysts speculated that the referendum defeat was actually welcomed by certain factions within the regime, including an odd coalition of hard-liners who resist any liberalization in Poland and ardent reformers who want even more drastic measures. But the outcome provided scant encouragement for those hoping that the belt-tightening reforms would allow the country to begin chipping...
Visiting artists at the ART are often incorporated into the Institute's ever-changing curriculum. When Richard Foreman comes to Cambridge this spring to direct The Fall of the House of Usher, a musical by composer Philip Glass which is based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror tale, he will also hold an intensive workshop on acting at the Institute, says registrar Barbara Akiba. And European director Andrei Serban has already taught a class on acting using bamboo poles during one visit...