Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunster House, which finished bow-to-bow with Kirkland in the preliminary beats last week, was unable to narrow Kirkland's margin of victory as the wind died for the last quarter mile...
...priceless cello bow, belonging to Soviet cellist Mstislav Rostropivich, was stolen Sunday at the musician's open rehearsal at Sanders Theatre. The bow, made out of tortoise shell with gold trim, was a gift from Gregor Piatagorsky, another world-famous cellist. Inscribed on it are "sartory" and "made especially for Mr.Piatagorsky...
Designed by Olin Stephens, the man responsible for three of the last four cup winners,* Intrepid is not a particularly graceful-looking boat. With a bobbed bow and a truncated stern, she is only 64 ft. long overall, 45 ft. at the waterline, compared with 68 ft. and 46 ft. for Columbia and Constellation. An obvious advantage is weight; Stephens figures that he saved more than 60 Ibs. on the shorter bow alone. What's more, says Stephens, without the usual heavy fore and aft overhang, the short-ended Intrepid will be less prone to lose speed by hobbyhorsing...
...nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four, the "Thoreau" movement is the kindest to its namesake. Its big surprise is the sudden addition of a lyrical, low-register, and entirely unseen flute. Monday night the flutist was nowhere on the program and even refused to come out for a bow...
...last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...