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Word: barbering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small but lively stable company. With Peter Mark, 37, as its artistic director and conductor, the group draws its orchestra and chorus from the nearby area and casts young stars from the regional opera circuit in principal roles. V.O.A. began by wooing its audience with bubbly comic stalwarts (The Barber of Seville) and Puccini tearjerkers (Madama Butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Queen Mary in Virginia | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...subtitle, Kitri's Wedding, more accurately describes both the Russian and the Baryshnikov versions. It is based on an episode in the Cervantes novel in which an innkeeper's daughter, Kitri (danced by Gelsey Kirkland), manages to marry her true love, Basil the Barber (Baryshnikov), in defiance of her father, who has a richer son-in-law in mind. The visionary Don Quixote (Alexander Minz) and his faithful Sancho Panza (Enrique Martinez) are on the periphery of the raucous doings but play no real part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Americanization of Don Q | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

After reading your harsh appraisal of the federal civil service, I was reminded of M. Beaumarchais's classic insight in The Barber of Seville: "Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy of valets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Evening of Opera and Dance--Lowell House Music Society presents works of Puccini, Barber and Stravinsky in English. At 9:15 in Lowell Dining Hall. Tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 9 - March 15 | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...other advances, it has computer-controlled wings that automatically change shape during tight, fast moves, allowing a pilot to shake off a pursuing plane and most missiles in wrenching operations, like 360° revolving turns. Fortunately, F-16s have a special seat that tilts back 30°, like a barber's chair, to ease the punishing pull of gravity in sharp turns and loops. As a result, says Rider: "you are as comfortable in a 7.5-G turn in the F-16 as you were at about 5 Gs in the F-4 Phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: War at 33 Miles a Minute | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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