Word: das
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...heavily symbolic interpretation that, among other extraordinary devices, uses the composer's own face as a set. French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau's complete The Ring of the Nibelung (starting Jan. 17 on PBS with a documentary and continuing a week later with Das Rheingold) is a brash, iconoclastic view that sets the four-opera cycle in the mid-19th century, when Wagner wrote it. The videotaped Bayreuth Ring succeeds triumphantly, while Parsifal a spectacular failure...
...visitors cut played the nation's second-ranked team for two periods in front of 5116 hostile fans. Scott Fusco put the Crimson up 4:36 into the match, tucking a shot just under the crosshair. Bulldog center Das Fish back beat netminder Blair to the it early in the middle period and the sensational play of Duluth goalie Bob Mason (32 saves) stopped the Crimson offense...
...preludes and fugues that make up The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...
...Development Advisory Service (DAS), which HIID built on and incorporated when it was established in 1974, withdrew from Argentina following a military coup. The following year, similar events forced DAS out of Greece...
...While DAS was criticized by some for having an ideological bias. HIID receives almost unanimous praise for the reported trust it has earned in the developing world...