Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade, when he has designed all of Hal Prince's musicals from Cabaret to Pacific Overtures. To see his work is like seeing the graph of a sensitive mind in motion. His perception of Company: "Movement in New York is vertical, horizontal, angular, never casual. In Versailles, you bow; in New York, you dodge cabs. Finally, I conceived a set that was basically a gymnasium for acting...
When a British Labor government came to power in 1964 shortly after the Concorde program got under way, it decided that Britain could not afford the project and tried to bow out. It changed its mind only after it became clear that the French might sue Britain in the International Court of Justice for failing to live up to the terms of the Franco-British agreement...
Surrounding the hero and heroine, however, is a world full of characters more willing than they to bow to the rigid dictates of regency fashion. Elderly female relatives are constantly shocked at the heroine's outspokenness, and make liberal use of handkerchiefs, tears, and smelling salts. Vapid young men simper about in absurd clothes, worrying only about the make of their Hessians and the height of their collars. Brainless beauties fall desperately in love with ineligible fortune hunters and threaten to elope across the border to Scotland in the face of their family's disapproval. These other, less competent characters...
Inevitably, things got nasty. While crossing the bow of the British tug Euroman, the Icelandic gunboat Thor was rammed and damaged. The British claim it was an accident; the Icelanders believe it was deliberate. In any case, given the North Atlantic's chronic wintertime high winds and rough waters, such naval games of chicken were bound to produce collisions. A fortnight ago the confrontation grew more serious. While seeking shelter from a gale two miles off Iceland's coast, the unarmed British ocean-going tug Lloydsman was fired on by the Thor. Iceland says the Thor fired...
Radcliffe Choral Society presents "A Renaissance Celebration of Christman" with the Harvard Glee Club performing works from its Swedish Cathedral program. St. Paul's Church (Bow and Arrow Streets, Cambridge...