Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the dress rehearsal, but so far nothing seems ready. The scene is unclothed, the lights are out, the curtains malcoordinated. And yet as the tensed wrist of the harpsichordist travels across the tuning pegs, as the organ's pitch is finally affixed, as each musician is gathered into place, one senses that the real setting of this opera is here fully assembled...
...melancholy viola da gamba and the haunting lirone shaped like early venuses. The blockflutes, the recorders with their warm and woody sound. The tiny baroque guitar, cradled like a courageous lap-dog, and the harpsichords, the harpsichords: banquet tables of the basso-continuo; two banks of oars pulling across the river...
Some students questioned why firefighters didn't respond as soon as the fire broke out, considering that a Cambridge Fire Department station is located across the street from Memorial Hall...
...Across the street from the Ritz Carlton and nestled between the posh shoulders of the Armani boutique and Alan Bilizeran, the 25 Newbury Street Banana Republic seems to want to play in the big leagues. They use their location as much for brand name advertisement as for selling clothes. And it seems to be working; across Boston people are buying and vying to dress like a banana...
...wasn't considered a worthy subject. After all, everyone thinks she's just the epitome of a blond but no one ever really bothers to see her movies or read her interviews to find out what's really going on underneath all that frizz and collagen. So I come across this quote the other day from our darling Mel G: "I always wanted to go back to school, you know to major in something like philosophy. Do they have that? You know, like majors in, like you know, philosophy?" I change my mind. No need to go in Melanie...