Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music's unpredictable juxtapositions, its intensifications and easings, its shifts in perspective, its encompassing grasp of powerful and disparate emotions, that we find Mahler -- and ourselves...
...Times Square. I promised myself that I would not procrastinate on papers anymore (I failed that by writing this article), that I would learn to ski, that I would not complain about dining hall food, and that I would not--not under any circumstance, not even if the fate of the free world rested on my shoulders--order the Olympic Triplecast on pay-per-view cable...
...attendance numbers decide the financial fate of the tournament, so the tournament directors have decided to heed them. Organizers have kept their recent invitations confined to western squads, hosting Northern Michigan next year and Notre Dame the following year...
...Russian underworld -- and the accused plotters of last August's coup. There they await trial on charges of high treason. If found guilty -- and several insist they were innocent dupes -- they could be imprisoned for 10 to 15 years, or put to death. But whatever their eventual fate, one thing is totally clear: the plotters have no rivals for the title of Bunglers of the Year. In fact, not just of the year. If there were such a thing as an Incompetence Olympics held every four years, the Moscow plotters would easily win the gold medal and set a world...
...Hagegard) decides to enter the action -- don't ask how -- to enable his beloved to escape prison and flee to Philadelphia. The scheme depends on selling her diamond necklace, which changes hands roughly as often as the Rhine gold. In the end Marie decides to accept her grisly historical fate, though she does confess that she has fallen in love with Beaumarchais...