Word: barne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flagpole in the courtyard of the 13th century stone barn, the black, red and gold stripes of Germany flew above the red hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. It was a tribute to German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...
Died. Spencer Tracy, 67, Hollywood's master of character, who made up in art what he lacked in looks ("I've got a face," he once said, "like a beat-up barn door"); over four decades earned more Academy Award nominations (eight) than any other actor and actually won two Oscars, as the stoic Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous (1937) and the warmhearted Father Flanagan in Boys' Town (1938), was also memorable as Hemingway's gnarled hero in The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and as a stern jurist in Judgment at Nuremberg...
...could get past the snarling scrooges at the box office and forget about the corrugated cardboard barn that is Boston's memorial to war, you were in for one of this spring's purer aesthetic moments. Britain's Royal Ballet was in town last week...
Even the Preakness will not answer all the questions. Back in the barn at Aqueduct is a three-year-old colt named Dr. Fager, who won the mile-long Withers Stakes so easily last Saturday that he could have taken time out in the stretch run for a dip in the track's infield lake. Whichever horse wins the Preakness will eventually have to answer...
After a Friday afternoon "happening" and a psychedelic show, Kirkland House members will on Saturday night revel at a Barn Dance to be held in Concord. Bowing to one's partner and dos-y-do-ing will be replaced by a more modern set of steps and gyrations as the rock 'n' roll sound of Thee Argo replaces the more traditional strains of the barn dance fiddler...