Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that really provides the bang for the buck. Zeffirelli and Costume Designer Dada Saligeri offer a regal gold and mother-of-pearl panoply: high atop a throne in the far reaches of the cavernous stage perches the black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...
...atop the standings. The Harvard men's hockey team finished in first place in the ECAC regular season with a 20-2 record. Four weeks ago, the Crimson was atop the national polls, but is now fourth...
Lampoon: has elegant-looking bird atop building...
Crimson: does not have elegant-looking bird atop building...
After setting a team record for consecutive victories at the start of a season with 15, the Crimson went 7-4 the rest of the way to finish the regular season atop the ECAC and ranked fourth in the country...