Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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On Friday, postal workers in the nation's capital were ordered to work overtime on the weekend to clear the backlog of mail. Just two years ago, Postmaster General Marvin Runyon promised to turn the district's postal service into a "showpiece" of modern technology and efficiency. Yet, in a...
Simple as it sounds, that is precisely the idea. With the intensity of a disaster-relief operation, the cities and towns of America have mobilized to ensure that the summer of '94 is filled with lively diversions instead of deadly teenage violence. Community leaders and parents have launched a record...
Set between 1925 and 1945, Generations moves from disaster to disaster as despotic communism devours its own and Germany attacks and destroys millions more. Members of the Gradov family, led by Dr. Boris Nikitovich, make their separate ways through history. Aksyonov impressively spreads out a panorama of suffering, but he...
The performance, however, suffered from an obvious lack of rehearsal, with the pianist and the conductor, Vassily Sinaisky, unable to agree on basic matters of tempo: Cliburn finished the first movement a good half-beat ahead of the band. The andantino movement went well enough, but disaster struck in the...
So is Cliburn Comeback '94 an incipient disaster? Far from it. The pianist's spokesman says the tour will continue, with the Rachmaninoff. And however well or poorly he plays, Cliburn will afford new audiences a chance to hear what pianism in the grand manner is all about. The nuggets...