Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adjustment was a tough one at first. "Everybody thought I should have blond hair and blue eyes--I have brown hair and brown eyes. But I surf--not very well. I play a beach sport. I take things that are not significant lightly." He was not the typical Harvard freshman, if there is such a thing. Three of his four roommates were devoted to academics, but school was never Doyle's biggest concern...
...swimwear business, manufacturers often survive about as long as a sand castle on the beach. Gottex, though, has made money for the past 15 years, and in 1984 it earned $4 million before taxes. It has prospered with a simple formula: sell sexy bathing suits and stake out the fashion end of the market...
...Glass Ensemble performed at the Festival d'Automne in Paris, which was run by Michel Guy, a French aristocrat fascinated by the New York avant-garde. Appointed Secretary of State for Culture the next year, Guy later commissioned Einstein on the Beach, which had its premiere in July 1976 after a year of rehearsals. The unconventional Einstein was a near pantomime set to Wilson's typically elliptical spoken texts and allusive stage pictures of railroad trains and spaceships. There were no formal arias or indeed any set pieces at all; a small chorus sang "One, two, three, four, five...
...Satyagraha, which has had several productions in the U.S. and Europe, has been recorded by CBS Masterworks for release in July; Beverly Sills, a confirmed fan, has scheduled it for the New York City Opera next year. And last December the Brooklyn Academy of Music revived Einstein on the Beach, a 4 1/2-hour opera by Glass and American Theater Artist Robert Wilson that boldly proclaimed the triumph of minimalism to a mainstream audience with two sold-out performances at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...moved by Woody Guthrie's lyrics; they rock to Mick Jagger and Aretha Franklin. They are not Dead End slum dwellers; they are Viet Nam vets and night-school dropouts. Their collars may be blue, but their lives run in the black: sheepskin jackets and vacations at the beach...