Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem comes when the line is crossed between splendor and risibility. The troublesome answers to Turandot's three riddles are contained in pennants attached to the back of her gleaming aqua dress; as Calaf gives the correct ; answers, her minions unfurl the flags. Too tricky by far, and the opening night audience just laughed. Further, the cast spent much of the performance looking down at its collective feet so as not to stumble across the treacherous obstacle course of risers and steps. As a result, Marton, born for the title role, was oddly tentative, the sturdy Domingo seemed distracted...
...Were of the '60s." As the decade and the show progress, girl groups give way to woman singers, coy jingles to wham- bam sexuality. Says Pattie Darcy, 30, a blond soul stirrer whose repertoire embraces Gore and Franklin: "It shows women letting their hair down, washing the Aqua Net out, giving up their skintight skirts and high heels...
...Aqua Mirage laser show, designed by MITFellow Paul Earls, drew criticism from anotherobserver who said, "If this is what a laser showis, what's the hope for Star Wars...
...neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...
Another of the six sites that EPA claims to have successfully cleaned is in Baltimore, where strong acids and aqua regia, one of the most corrosive liquids in existence, had been stored throughout the 1970s. For years, residents in 20 row houses along Annapolis Road complained of eye, nose and throat irritation; eight people were burned in July 1979 when chemicals leaked into a playing area. EPA removed 1,500 drums and scraped off up to twelve inches of topsoil. The land was sloped and sodded and declared fit for a playground. But critics cite tests showing that the contamination...