Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a phrase describing a healing, embattled love: "but the night was dark/ and love was a burning fence/ about my house," she writes at the end of "Gemini." "Quiet love hangs/ in the door of my house/ a sheet of brick-caught silk/ rent in the sun" concludes "Echo", also written in the 1950s. But "Dreams Bite", written in 1968, ends "I shall love/ again/ when I am obsolete...
Designer Nicholas Georgiadis' lavish costumes and elaborate, larger-than life scenery embellish the ballet's sensual Spanish flair. The glowing hues of land, sea and sky in the Barcelona port scene and muted whites and silvers of the mystical forest fantasyland in the dream sequence echo the vibrance of the dancing itself. The fervid tangos and airy waltzes of Ludwig Minkus' original 19th century score capture the colorful folk mood of Old World Spain. Assistant Director Anna-Marie Holmes' staging is for the most part fast-paced and engaging, but sometimes lacks the vigor necessary to maintain the intensity...
McCartney's Beatles days also echo through Off the Ground, his best and brashest record since the 1973 Band on the Run. His tendency toward sentimentality is held in check by boisterous guitars and lyrics that raise an activist banner against animal abuse and social intolerance. The quirky orchestral embellishments on Golden Earth Girl and Mistress and Maid recall the Fab Four's psychedelic phase, while C'mon People, with its heartfelt appeal to "get it right this time," evokes the Utopian sweep of Golden Slumbers and Hey Jude...
...poise and grit. "We kept telling her that she had to smile," a White House aide recalled. Two hours later, the hearings closed. At 10, Baird reached Cutler's office downtown, where Christopher and White House aide Paster informed her that there was no hope left. Biden called to echo the point. After some hesitation, Baird relented. Phone calls were made; letters were exchanged by fax, and, at 1:22 a.m., released to the press...
...away from the safe confines of the Yard--is in the middle of Cambridge, a midsize Eastern city with many of the same problems as the very town I left. The killing of an MIT student on Memorial Drive and the attack on a fellow 29 Garden St. resident echo violence I thought I left behind...