Word: ascended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ballot in almost all 50 states, has a national organization and has political positions on most of the major issues of the day isn't entitled to a national audience. How are new candidates ever going to break the two-party mold if they can't ascend a presidential podium...
Figuratively speaking, Princess Diana has been beheaded. Now all that remains is for Prince Charles to ascend the throne in due course; his appropriate name then would be King Henry VIII the Second. Long live hypocrisy! JOCELYN MARY SEEMANN Durban, South Africa...
...doffing of a tie to make voters see Bob Dole, Kansan, instead of Bob Dole, Capitol Kingpin. But there is consolation if they don't. Now that he has, as he put it so eloquently, left "behind all the trappings of power, all comfort and all security," he can ascend to what Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the highest office in a democracy, above even that of the presidency: citizen...
...simulacrum of a plot (the lives of 16th century Spanish saints), Wilson treats the opera's Dadaesque musings as a delicate dreamscape, filling the stage with characteristically elliptical images. Some, such as a levitating illuminated triangle, are familiar from earlier Wilson spectacles, while others--fluffy sheep that slowly ascend into the heavens, where they become clouds--are new. Robustly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the opera's simple Midwestern melodies provide an ideal complement to the graceful stage pictures, while the cast, headed by soprano Ashley Putnam (St. Theresa I) and baritone Sanford Sylvan (St. Ignatius), projects Stein's words...
Michael will probably never ascend his country's throne, since the monarchy was abolished in 1974. But he still dispenses royal charity. After an aide established a connection with the Montessori school, the faculty introduced Michael to Elisa. On the day he arrived in Brooklyn, he would later remember, "[Elisa] jumped into my arms. She was a lively, charming, beautiful girl. She was so full of love." The prince visited several times, bringing stuffed animals or clothes; the little princess responded with thank-you notes and pictures. Michael's most handsome offer arrived in late 1993: he would pay Elisa...