Word: chariots
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...gusto. They do too little, too slowly. Such immobility is simply impermissible these days." Critics take the dilapidated condition of the Bolshoi Theater (which also houses the equally straitened Bolshoi Ballet) as symbolic. Spots have darkened its walls; danger signs hang here and there; the sculpture of a chariot-borne Apollo on its roof stands within a protective cage awaiting repairs. THE BOLSHOI BUILDING ((IS)) ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE, warned a headline in the Moscow newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta...
...Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose and a journey over a fabricated rainbow. Naturally, there are unbelievers. Says Orlando Sentinel columnist Robert Morris: "Somehow I just can't picture Buster and Betty Lunchbucket of Racine, Wis., along with all the little Lunchbuckets, lining up to get in touch with their...
...jubilees and other numbers in the African-American tradition. Although the male vocals lacked strength, the female members provided some of the most stirring solos of the night. Most notable were Leslie Callahan's passionate alto in "Ride on King Jesus," Jamylle Carter's beautiful soprano in "Ride the Chariot" and Paitra Russell's spectacular voice in "Didn't It Rain...
...movie, after Patton's dazzling tank dash across Belgium and Germany to defeat Hitler's armies in 1945: "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph, a tumultuous parade . . . The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot . . . A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning that all glory is fleeting." One imagines that if there had been a voice whispering in Bush's ear, it would have sounded like Richard Nixon's -- confiding, sepulchral, full of its dark shrewdness...
Cleanest Machine For the first time, a major manufacturer said it would be able to mass-produce a nonpolluting car. GM's electric Impact would be twice as expensive to operate as a regular chariot, but ever improving batteries should eventually change that. Besides, isn't clean air worth something...