Word: dazzler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roaming the flats--left vacant by the young Columbia linebackers, who had been drawn in tight by a good Harvard rushing attack--Beatric combined 39 yards as a receiver with 29 yards on the ground. Superend Rich Horner, catching three for 75 yards, including a 36-yd. first quarter dazzler, also enjoyed a fine afternoon...
Winthrop, facing a zone defense, notched the only tally in the first half on a Rich Brody to Bob Bowman to Al Dawes to Matt Hobbs razzle-dazzler. Quarterback Brody flipped to John Ryan for the extra point...
...novel's dreary lives are redeemed in the telling. Bainbridge's ear catches the tang of Liverpudlian argot ("My word, we do look a bobby dazzler"). The sisters' petty quarrels are small excursions of humanity in straitened circumstances. When Rita learns that her churlish soldier is illiterate, her dismayed brain is soon assuaged by her emotions. "Dear God, she thought, running up the cobbled alleyway, if he was that unschooled, he would need her, he would want to hold her in his life." Bainbridge unwisely changes her novel into a standard shocker on the final pages...
Stravinsky: Petrushka (New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conductor, Columbia, $5.98). Boulez's first recording with his new charges at the Philharmonic, and a sonic dazzler. When Stravinsky conducted this music, he deliberately gave it a kind of squeeze-box accordion sound, as though trying to match the marionette-stage milieu of the puppet hero. Boulez's performance is much broader in both aura and atmosphere, as if his touchstones were the gay, extroverted Shrovetide Fair scenes that open and close the work. The approaches are opposed but, happily, of equal validity...
...where Husband Richard Burton is making a movie called Bluebeard, the beautiful 40-year-old invited some 200 friends in from all over the world for a couple of days of drinking and dancing and laughing and looking at the birthday girl and her jewels. The lat est Elizabethan dazzler was a present from Burton: the flat, heart-shaped diamond given by 17th century Indian Shah Jahan to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal -for whom he built the Taj Mahal. Shah Richard promised to match the cost of the pendant (guesstimate: $100,000) with a donation to charity; he also said...