Word: baton
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...another instance, the family of Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori won $653,000 in a civil suit filed against Baton Rouge, Louisiana, butcher Rodney Peairs, who shot their son when he mistakenly came to Peairs' door while searching for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, but, says the Hattoris' lawyer Charles Moore, "sometimes jury verdicts are wrong. That doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and walk away...
Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin" suite opened the program by exhibiting the best qualities of today's BSO. Under Music Director Seiji Ozawa's baton, the orchestra always excels in the playing of modern French masterworks. Add to that experience the wit and insight of Previn, and the result cannot help but please...
...family, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri said at a news conference. "They're doing it not to balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people who don't need a tax break." President Clinton plans to grab the baton Tuesday at a Medicare "birthday celebration" event on Capitol Hill, while Gephardt, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and other Democrats will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary on Sunday in Independence, Mo., where President Johnson signed the legislation into law, sitting beside former President Harry Truman, who had fought...
...doing that overseas. Simultaneously, Nagano is music director in Lyons, France; leader of the venerable Halla Orchestra in Manchester, England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
What kind of child she was: She when young but always busy: piano, violin, dancing, acting, tennis, soccer. But "it's the baton-twirling that pretty much shows I was doing everything...