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...opera, or his 1983 Macbeth. This unsmiling view of what were once popular entertainments, steeped in a popular idiom, is at odds with the spirit of the composer he professes to serve. And in recasting the sound of the orchestra in line with today's international ideal -- brighter, crisper, sharper -- he has rendered it almost interchangeable with other crack ensembles, such as the Chicago Symphony and the London Symphony...
Last weekend, the sun shone a bit brighter for the Crimson at Mt. Pleasant, as the men finished in sixth place and the women in fourth...
...more than three decades, as the frozen mass hurtled along its lonely path, the distant star had grown bigger and brighter in the blackness of space. Now the icy wayfarer was picking up speed, and the star had become a shining yellow sphere, its intense light illuminating the planets circling it. Basking in the rays of the star, the approaching comet warmed, giving off vapors that formed a growing cloud around it. And in the brightening light, the cloud began to glow...
...Diana overlooked Charles, who has been given a minor make-over by his wife. She has spruced up his young-fogy image by getting him to wear brighter ties, striped shirts and less somber suits. She also persuaded him to allow her haircutter to give him a slightly longer, less plastered-down look that makes his ears look less prominent...
...brighter side, said acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. James Mason, recent studies show declines in the rate of syphilis and gonorrhea, indicating that some Americans have already become less promiscuous, possibly out of fear of AIDS or herpes. As a result, the spread of the AIDS virus may be slowing. "This disease is controllable now," said Mason. Despite some of the frightening evidence to the contrary, he insisted, "the feeling of helplessness that many Americans feel is absolutely unnecessary and counterproductive...