Word: blazed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black-clad dancers move in startling imitation of galloping horsemen to the music of a Georgian Lezghinka; Spring Dances from the Ukrainian Suite, which opens with a slow, weaving dance evocation of the melancholy a Ukrainian girl feels when her lover leaves for the front, ends with a bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations of the past such as Khorumi, a heroic dance on themes of war and the hunt, performed in Georgia in the 12th century...
...swayed on the podium, sweeping his arms in long, scythe-like motions, which blurred individual phrases but drew from his orchestra the longspun melodic line that is Ormandy's chief delight. The audience applauded briskly, and most critics splashed their reviews with such words as "energetic." "singing," "blazing." But for all the blaze, Ormandy's tempi were questionable, and his lush handling of the strings in the Bach reminded Chicago Sun-Times Critic Robert C. Marsh of "chocolate syrup" with ''a whipped-cream decoration." Ormandy achieved a far more polished and impressive performance with his second...
...steamy half-hour. Wingate bravely bowed to TV protocol and said: "It's been very pleasant." Responded his guest: "I enjoyed it very much." As the WABD switchboard began to blaze, mostly with anti-Churchill calls, Interrogator Wingate began to fume, next day talked threateningly of a libel suit. When reporters caught up with home-bound Randolph on shipboard in New York Harbor, they found him sleeping unperturbed...
...latest police action is the result of complaints from the fire department that illegal parking around Leverett House hindered the extinguishing of a fire in the House Monday morning. The blaze resulted in the gutting of a room in Mather Hall and extensive damage in several adjoining suites...
Boulukos and Tangeman tried to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers but were driven back by the smoke. Firemen wearing gasmasks subdued the flames with water when they arrived about five minutes later. A window was knocked out, and flamings sofas, chairs and tables were thrown into the courtyard below...