Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With seven minutes gone in the first period, Crimson center Johanna Neilson took a pass from Christine Burns just inside the blue line and pumped a shot through the Cat defense and past UVM goalie Diane Bothfeld for the first score...
Look what happened to Cat Stevens: during his tortuous pursuit of spiritual fulfillment, he sang some of the most evocative songs ever put to vinyl--but, the minute he found peace in the religion of Islam, he put down his guitar forever. Yusuf Islam (Cat's new name) may be happy now, but what about...
...resignation speech last week, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi announced that Italy had filed a protest over both the T-39's landing and the pursuit of the 737 by an F-14 to within 25 miles of Rome. In any event, Abbas proved victorious in the game of cat and mouse. He soon headed for Belgrade, leaving a trail of diplomatic disputes in his wake...
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 satire about automation and the working stiff, was premature. Cat's Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain...
...refined and improved for the American production. Brought to life by Knussen's witty score, which slyly quotes from composers as disparate as Mussorgsky and Debussy, they may be the most engaging anthropomorphs to appear on the operatic stage since Maurice Ravel breathed life into a Chinese cup, a cat and a tree in L'Enfant et les Sortileges, the 1925 prototype for Wild Things...