Word: concorde
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With Purcell's music lending a touch of formal majesty, the performers move from discord to concord in a progress that sinks deep into the layers of Shakespeare's meanings, to emerge restored and invigorated. Stage movement as much as language becomes a spade they use to unearth poetic ambiguities, in several mimes enacted to bits of Purcell's score: while a soprano sings a mournful aria, Stephen Rowe's Demetrius and Lisa Sloan's Helena wander about in a ghostly love-dance, with Helena reaching for and grasping Demetrius just as he turns away; after the night of illusion...
BRIGHT SUN in your eyes, tooling south down the highway from Concord, drifting into the Amsokeag-Bridge-Manchester exit, past the big Holiday Inn ("Welcome Gv Reagan Wife"), and on the right the billboard squats in a weedy lot. "Make the Dollar Sound as Gold--Vote LaRouche." And on the blue-tinted forehead of this Democrat, in red spray paint, someone has scrawled a swastika...
...made that document legal. A fifth of the state consists of public parklands, which, along with 17 miles of coastline, attract half a billion dollars in tourism annually. Low tax rates have brought an influx of industrial development. While the 424-member (most in the nation) legislature meets in Concord, the capital, Manchester is the largest city and home of the Union Leader, the largest newspaper...
Private citizen Richard Nixon, trooping through Keene and Concord and Durham and Manchester with his USC Mafia, in the winter of '68, also knew what he had come for. His media barrage tried to portray a "New Nixon," matured from the days of Checkers and "last" press conferences, a wise and respected statesman well-suited to deal with a changing and complex world. But what about sex appeal? That could be a problem. Harry Treleaven, Nixon media mastermind and anti-hero of Joe McGinniss's The Selling of the President 1968, touched on this area in a memo entitled...
...down the Main Streets and Elm Streets of New Hampshire, from Colebrook to Concord, from Dixville Notch to Laconia, banners, posters, TV and radio ads proclaim the slogans aimed at achieving victory or avoiding defeat in the nation's first primary, on Feb. 26. The Granite State was a bit upstaged this year when the Iowa and Maine caucuses took on greater prominence than ever before. But New Hampshire is still the first state where voters cast an actual ballot...