Word: baton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show consists of a series of segments that combine the narrative of theater with the movement of dance. "Snappy Crayons," which lends the piece its title, is just one of these scenes. In this demonstration of the "soon-to-be sport of foam baton air drawing," Whiteside is joined by four cast members--Martha Mason, Marjorie Morgan, David Russell and Harvard junior John Blackmer '98. To the music of Bill Frisell, the dancers climb all over each other with remarkable strength, waving brightly colored foam batons. The ease with which the dancers twist their bodies around each other is fascinating...
...with Chinese goods. This year Louisiana fishermen were severely hurt when the Chinese undersold Louisiana-harvested crawfish 40% to 50% per lb. At the supermarket, people wondered aloud how the Chinese could possibly make a profit. I fear they are using political prisoners and virtual slave labor. MARTA MCCARRON Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Musicians are not CDs; they await cues, tempos, phrasing instructions and a host of interpretative intangibles from the guy who's waving a baton at them. If Kaplan at Salzburg did not bring to mind a slick stick like Riccardo Muti or Valery Gergiev, his intense, attentive manner in front of the Philharmonia, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel and soprano Rosa Mannion bespoke a firm grasp. Mahler's heaven-storming climaxes shook the Grossesfestspielhaus to its granite foundations, and anyone who did not feel a chill at the tremendous peroration must either have been dead...
There was no mistaking the sex of the great Wilma Rudolph, who was a young mother when she won the 100, the first of her three gold medals, at the Rome Olympics in 1960. She in turn passed the baton to another Tennessee State runner, Wyomia Tyus, who won in both '64 and '68 to become the first runner, man or woman, to win an Olympic sprint twice. African-American women have also won the past three 100s: Evelyn Ashford in '84, the flamboyant Florence Griffith-Joyner in '88 and Gail Devers...
...heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies. "We are working desperately to produce resistant bee stocks," says Tom Linderer, who directs a honeybee breeding and genetics lab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the Agriculture Department. "But we have only glimmers of success...