Word: cups
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...they were 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...
...belonged to Crowe. The New Zealander had just returned from a World Cup track meet in Australia where he took sixth in the 5,000 meters...
...California Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Interior Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, is enraged by the expenditure. "We charge them to build a dam, we get a bowling alley instead," he said last week. The bureau has proposed that Utah residents who will be served by CUP whenever the project is completed pay back about 75% of the federal cost for the bowling alley through water charges...
...visiting British couple, John Meeus and his wife, spoke of the quake with British understatement. They were staying at the Galeria Plaza Hotel in the Zona Rosa neighborhood, Mexico City's popular tourist area. "I was having a cup of coffee in bed when my hand and the cup started shaking," Meeus said. "I looked out of the window and saw a building collapse. I turned to my wife and said, 'I think we've got a slight earth tremor...
...India!" does far less well by the decorative arts. The occasional jeweled jade cup or fragment of ancient carpet does little to bespeak the Indian sense of design. Sculpture is scantily represented, although the first object the visitor sees is a ravishingly full-breasted, round-hipped bronze of the goddess Parvati. Thereafter, however, the erotic in Indian art is discreetly underplayed. Of India's greatest glories, its large-scale sculpture and monumental architecture, there is scarcely even a photographic hint. In all the exhibition, the only room that comes close to conveying a sense of the objects in context...