Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...composers may finally have hit an operatic mother lode. Within the past year, the Metropolitan Opera has staged two successful world premieres by Americans, John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles and Philip Glass's The Voyage. This month, through Nov. 24, Lyric Opera of Chicago is striking pay dirt with William Bolcom's McTeague. Eureka...
...BOTTOM LINE: Don't expect all the dirt, but this musical bio is surprisingly honest and lavishly entertaining...
...best part of my walk was when I left my dorm and I got attacked by a Yard squirrel. But that was quite all right. He just left a few scratches and dirt patches on me. Besides, he was cute. Sometimes it seems that these little creatures have adjusted to campus life better than most students...
...managed to survive both incidents. I only had a few scratches, dirt patches, a chrome bar imprint in my side and tire marks on my once gleamingly white, one-day-old sneakers. I could manage. So I went on my way, watching every step...
Steinbrenner ran Winfield out of New York by harassing him, vilifying him in the press, and paying an indicted gambler, Howard Spiro, to dig up dirt on the Yankee rightfielder. As a staff editorial on the opinion page commented about Mike Beys' Spin Doctors fiasco with the Undergraduate Council, this was both stupid and sleazy...