Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baton Rouge...
...offending referees. When 60,000 University of Florida loyalists gather for a game, the world's largest beach party is under way, fueled by whisky and Gatorade. At the University of Georgia, wardrobes are planned for the slow stroll to seats behind the fabled hedges. Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, home of Louisiana State University, is a saucer-shaped bowl that amplifies every sound and helps screaming boosters live up to their reputation as football's noisiest fans. At Ole Miss, when the band plays Dixie, massed Confederate flags in the student section wave frenziedly...
...Georg Solti, the Paris Opéra's principal guest conductor, led Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. A light had been glaring in his eyes all evening and, leaning away to avoid it, he had already broken two batons. Then, early on in Act III, he stabbed himself in the temple with the point of his third baton. Blood poured down into his right eye, dripping onto the score and music desk. Onstage, Count Almaviva was alone, plotting revenge against his uppity manservant, Figaro. Solti went on beating time with his right hand and sopping...
...ascended into view, Solti returned to his place. His wound turned out to be minor, and was later patched with a small bandage. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," said Solti. Perhaps not in front of an audience, but Solti once stabbed his hand with a baton during a recording session in Vienna...
...work familiar to both conductor and orchestra, but still excitement ran high. Stokowski's fabled white mane is now a bit thin and shaggy, but the long, tapered hands still work their expressive magic. So does his pinpointing look. "One conducts with or without a baton," he likes to say, "but it is the eye that really does...