Word: customizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed they do. Whether she sports Despina's serving-girl mufti in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, is decked out in the rococo raiment of Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, or sweeps glamorously onto a concert stage dressed in one of her custom-made Rouben Ter-Arutunian gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing...
...upset of a different sort was taking place in Denver's Radisson Hotel. The world's top-ranked chess machine, a $14 million Cray X-MP/ 48 supercomputer running a program called Blitz, was about to lose the North American computer-chess championship to Hitech, a rack of custom-made silicon chips attached to a $20,000 Sun minicomputer...
Roosevelt and his men rode a scow downriver for three days, pushing through the ice jams. They came upon the thieves' camp and captured them without a fight. A practical man would have obeyed the custom of the territory and hanged the three right there. Some Dakotans were mystified by the course Roosevelt chose. He struggled on for ten more days, downriver and cross- country in brutal cold, standing guard through the nights, until he found a sheriff. He handed his prisoners over to the law. Much exertion over a rowboat. Much exertion, even manic bravado, in behalf...
...Women) of Dartmouth traditionally require their freshmen to stand during football contests, and to perform a ritualistic halftime dance. It is a custom born in a northern land where there's nothing better...
...Force and Marines often consider their first priority to be protecting the interests of their re- spective services. The fifth chief, the Chairman, has no power to arbitrate disputes; he can act only as spokesman for the group, which offers advice to the President and Secretary of Defense. By custom, major JCS recommendations must be unanimous...