Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every few years the music stops and a handful of big-name box-office attractions make a grab for one another's chairs. It happened a few years ago when Previn left the Pittsburgh Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor...
Now the musical merry-go-round is spinning again. Today Levine is the favorite to step into Karajan's shoes, thanks to his good working relationship with the self-governing ensemble during his regular guest-conducting stints. Other possible contenders: Maazel, the Boston Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, Philadelphia's Muti...
More troubling, there are not enough golf courses to meet demand. The National Golf Foundation estimates that 4,000 new courses would have to be built in the next decade to meet the crush. But high real estate and development costs kept the number of new courses to 211 last...
Few people are brave enough to risk a $3 haircut at the local barber college, and fewer still will opt for cut-rate root-canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that...
But the scaly truth is that taste changes; and an anthology of writings on Reni at the end of the catalog charts his fall. You see the first puff of feathers detach itself from the wing of the Angelic Limner in 1846, when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters...