Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generates emotions that are an inextricable blend of the domestic and the political. Along the Cuyahoga River, where the bare ruined choirs of America's industrial heartland are now being gingerly reclaimed by singles bars and furniture boutiques, Kathy Peterson, 33, is manager of an antique-brass shop. She spent a lot of time this fall trying to resolve her tumbled responses to Ferraro. Married, a mother and stepmother, she is "not a strong women's libber." She doesn't think people should vote for Ferraro just because she is a woman. Last week, after the candidate...
...Levine. At 41 already a brilliant conductor of Parsifal, he views Lohengrin as a kind of musical prequel to Wagner's last work. He adopted a daringly slow _ tempo for the Act I prelude, letting it burn with a fervid religiosity, but gave the chorus and onstage "brass players thrilling free rein in the opera's frequent boisterous moments. Levine has mastered the sense of timelessness so crucial to successful Wagner performances in general, and static works like Lohengrin in particular; one looks forward to the day, two seasons hence, when he takes on the more overtly dramatic...
...Government Printing Office should be embarrassed to be publishing this drivel. But more importantly, so should the military. Some top brass must have approved this brochure, calculating that the sort of person to fall for the pitch would be useful in the Army...
...Ferraro spoke contemptuously of Reagan's "selfconscious patriotism that's made on Madison Avenue." But the Democrats also are scrambling to embrace the potent symbolism of red-white-and-blue traditionalism. As Ferraro and Mondale paraded down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Labor Day morning, a brass band walked near by, playing Sousa marches. At the Democratic Convention in July, the San Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus sang America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, while the delegate horde turned the convention floor into a blur of red, white and blue. Convention Guest Mark Green...
That fan. And the ponytail. And those sunglasses that sit on his nose like the windshield of a small Italian sports car. And that walk: precarious, tippy-toed, tilted so far toward the ground that his knees seem almost like the brass casters underneath an antique armchair. Calvin Klein may be the image of a pumped-up nature boy, Yves Saint Laurent of a tropical flower that would wilt in direct sunlight. But Karl Lagerfeld looks just like, unmistakably like ... well, a fashion designer...