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...live performance because it's set in an eighteenth-century opera house rather than in a studio. The performance conditions of Mozart's day are faithfully reproduced, down to the wing-and-shutter sets and even the wheel-and-pulley flying contraptions which allowed gods and cherubs to float onstage...
Concealed virtuosity is a Feld hallmark. To the ordinary eye, double turns tucked into simple curves of movement spring up casually from the current of music. Girls rarely hurtle through the air, rather they float by like Chagall figures. Then, in a sudden mid-air reverse, they switch directions altogether...
President Lowell took the Crimson's disapproval for what it was worth. "That/the House Plan/...would meet with opposition was certain," he wrote, "for that has been true of every advance Harvard College has ever made...Strange rumors float about, and the less solid they are the lighter and easier they float. Some people seem to think that the student is to be chained in a galley and fed with a spoon...
William J. White, executive director of the housing agency, explained yesterday that because of a weak bond market the agency is unable to float enough bonds successfully to close the loans on all of its projects, including the Mission Park project...
...nonprofit TM movement, new recruits are initiated in candlelit, incense-filled rooms. Trained teachers assign each student a personal mantra-a meaningless sound that must be kept secret. Students are taught to close their eyes for 20 minutes twice daily, focus on their mantra, and let their mind "float and float...