Word: dass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WETTEN DASS? (BET THAT?), Germany. The audience makes spectacular bets, and celebrity guests wager whether the contestants can win the bets. After losing a wager, Hugh Grant had leg hairs pulled out with sticky tape...
...next song, a slight ballad by Friedrich Rueckert (the same one who made Mahler's masterpiece possible), was the evening's first jewel. As an astute listener remarked, "Dass sie hier gewesen" (That she was here) was ravishing because Goode wove in Upshaw's calm melody among a gently insistent stream of suspended fourths. The last of the five, "Der Musensohn" (The Muses' Son, a poem by Goethe), was a vehicle more for Goode's talent than Upshaw's--his capricious part intimated one of his upcoming Brahms solos. Unfortunately, the lace of technical difficulty left him free...
Opponents say they have raised only $30,000 to defeat the measure. The war chest in favor of Prop 215 tops $1 million, much of it from sympathetic tycoons. On the recommendation of Baba Ram Dass, the spiritual leader who works with aids patients, Laurance S. Rockefeller contributed $50,000. Global financier George Soros has contributed $350,000. With deep pockets like those behind it, the fight over medical marijuana could easily go national next...
Alpert, who later renamed himself Baba Ram Dass, left Harvard soon after Leary. He was fired by Pusey for administering hallucinogenic drugs to undergraduates, The Crimson reported on July...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...