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...upper hand in the divorce proceedings, Christine McVie counters past traumas with an overriding hope for the future. Harmonizing with Buckingham on "Don't Stop," her crystalline voice insists, "Yesterday's gone; don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Buckingham's "surf's up" Los Angeles enthusiasm, along with a crisp guitar solo, steams the song to a tempestuous finale. But he spins a still more intricate pattern in "Go Your Own Way," as he weaves his voice with McVie's and Nicks' in rounds. Both the percussion and guitar begin softly, bowing to the lyrics, but a soaring acidic guitar...
...transitions from piano to ensemble. Melnyk's and the orchestra's playing were especially forceful and resolute right from the beginning. Indeed, if at any time during the evening there was particularly an air of relentless fine playing, it was in the third movement of the Gershwin. It was crisp and swift as the piano clashed with the bass drum and some less conventional timpani. After startling soft and loud passages, the performance ended convincingly in an impressive surge...
...Hampton's Paul Piatellit slapped the puck into the upper left corner past Harvard netminder Doug Roche at 10:00 into the third stanza to give the Huskies an insurmountable lead. Piatellit converted a crisp pass from Daryl McLeod after an inept Harvard power play failed to keep the puck in the Huskie zone...
Harvard played a crisp, cohesive ball through most of the first half, as the cagers seemed well on their way to snapping a four-game Ivy League losing streak, but could muster only 22 points in the second stanza...
Inauguration Day, crisp and clear, began with a moving 8 a.m. religious service on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where 10,000 people sang Carter's favorite hymn, Amazing Grace, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., bundled up in a heavy black overcoat and brown hat, praised Carter for not forgetting the little people. According to an aide, the Carters skipped that ceremony to keep it from "turning into a circus," and worshiped instead at Washington's First Baptist Church...