Word: ancient
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Performing on a mix of originals and reproductions, Norrington's 80-player ensemble is made up of London free-lancers, many of whom also play in similar bands like the Academy of Ancient Music and the English Concert. In rehearsal, he leads his players with forceful gestures, cries of encouragement and vivid, running pictorial images that mirror the music's story. "It was only a passing shower," he tells the strings in the Fantastique's adagio. "Now you might live again . . . supposing she is with somebody else . . . you're exhausted . . . what Berlioz says about this part is that the drums...
Rooted in ancient hatreds, the unrest is fueled by the Soviet leader' s headlong rush to modernize his country. An exclusive look at the demonstrations. -- Shultz offers the Reagan Administration' s first Middle East peace plan since 1982. -- A backlash helps white extremists win a key by- election in South Africa. -- Manila' s mood is clouded two years after the People Power revolution...
...scroll containing a narrative version of the book of Genesis had deteriorated so badly that scholars despaired of ever uncovering its ancient secrets. That is, until the American team that included Charlesworth arrived in Jerusalem earlier this year. Armed with about 300 pounds of photographic equipment, the team hoped to analyze the aged parchment with sophisticated image-enhancement techniques developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study the surfaces of distant planets. First they planned to photograph the scrolls using infrared and conventional film. Then they would use a computer to magnify and clarify the images. By these...
...total of about 4,000 images were shot in Jerusalem and carted back to Southern Cal for study. Only a few dozen have been developed so far, but they have already shed new light on the customs of the ancient Jews and the cultural backdrop against which Christianity developed. Most startling are new passages that record in great detail the physical beauty of Abraham's wife Sarah. These include descriptions of the contours of Sarah's breasts, which Charlesworth interprets as proof that Judaic culture was not as puritanical or repressed as many scholars have suggested...
...Bruins were trying to "get" Ron Hextall, a shameless exercise which resulted in a couple of interference minors, but nothing else. For all the times the Bruins were violating Hextall's goal crease, it was surprising that the Flyers didn't try to "goon" Doug Keens according to the ancient reciprocal code...