Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave this farewell recital in Manhattan in 1947. Although De Luca claimed he sang with "the interest-never the principal," of his voice, it is apparent in the dry, papery quality of the upper registers, that some of the principal is gone. But the phrasing and intonation are as exact as ever, and the range of styles is impressive: Bottegari, Handel, Monteverdi, Mozart, Alfano...
...light, projected through a revolving disc of polarized plastic, is thrown on them. Motion can be controlled so accurately that a Technamated cutaway drawing of a jet engine shows the fuel flowing in and burning, the turbines and gears turning, and gases rushing out the rear, all in the exact timing of a real engine...
...friends," and one reason may be her solid religious convictions. "The most important thing about me," she says, "is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like the sonnet. I need that. A good director tells the actors where to move exact ly; then they're free to act. I'm grateful for that discipline, and I've never had a crisis of conscience." In a recurrent dream, she dies, now in a road accident, now of disease. "I keep thinking as I'm dying, I wanted to be better, more virtuous...
Although the state is to pass final sentence on the exact route of the highway, state officials have listened and will again to arguments for and against the several possible routes. Unfortunately, if action comes in this election year, it seems likely that the arguments will be both loud and irreconcilable...
Granting that the road must go through, it is the route which will exact the least from the city in terms of structural demolition and population relocation, over which the factions will wage...