Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the last pictures. Then suddenly, a short circuit caused the battery temperature to soar to what appeared to be fatally high levels. Surveyor hurriedly made another TV sweep of the moonscape, and scientists resigned themselves to its end at last. But just as they did, in some miraculous fashion the temperature started going down again, and the battery once more accepted a charge. How long Surveyor would last and whether it would work again, no one could say. In any event, the little spaceship had long since accomplished its mission...
...fittingly reverent fashion, began the U.S. premiere last week of Benjamin Britten's Curlew River at the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, N.Y. Styled as "a parable for church performance," the hour-long piece is based on a medieval No drama, Sumidagawa. It is a simple tale of a demented mother in search of her lost child, and it unfolds like a morality play in slow motion, all the more compelling for the stark economy of its movement and action...
...Philip IV of Spain, who was born in 1605, died in 1665, and presided, an irresolute, unassertive and undistinguished monarch, over the sunset of the Spanish empire. There is not much story to tell, but Mrs. Keyes stuffs the holes in her plot with dates, names, panoply, history lessons, fashion shows, and archly veiled allusions to sex at the castle level...
...still have hopes of seeing a wholly satisfactory production of Twelfth Night before I die. Shakespeare had to go through the experience of writing the highly flawed Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It just before he was able to fashion Twelfth Night, the last of his pure comedies and the only one that arguably achieves perfection. Our Stratfordians have to date offered two highly flawed productions of this priceless play; perhaps they too will be able to approach perfection on the third...
...portion of the people to be interviewed was selected in a totally random fashion -- any Boston voter having as much chance of being chosen as any other. The remainder was chosen randomly from certain designated neighborhoods, in order to over-represent minority groups. If this were not done, Wilson said, minorities would be represented in numbers too small to be meaningful...