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...Crimson swimmers saved their fireworks for the final day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships, bowng out Saturday with a flourish that warned rival teams to beware of Bill Brooks' mermen...
Such artistic daring has been the prime reason for Zeffirelli's top rank among opera directors. "We must make a crusade against boredom in the opera," he says, and in the past he has done so with a flourish and grandeur spent the ten best years of my life doing opera," he says wearily, "and now I will do it only for special events. I'll concentrate more on the theater. If I have flops, I won't regret them. The size of a man is known by the size of his flops...
...habit in Iraq that as soon as a new revolutionary regime has knocked off its predecessor, it then makes peace overtures to the rebellious Kurdish tribesmen holed up in the Zag ros Mountains. Latest to do so is President Abdul Salam Aref, who seized power last November. With a flourish of drums and trumpets, Radio Baghdad last week proclaimed an end to the three years of off-again, on-again war with Kurdish Leader Mustafa Barzani and his 35,000 pyejmargas, guerrilla fighters...
Every few words were underlined for emphasis. Notations in the text said "Pause," "Look right," and "Look left." And like the onetime high school elocution teacher that he is, President Johnson delivered his first State of the Union message in a style that had oratorical flourish without sounding strident...
Bach's modern interpreters have brought to his varied music all the resources of modern instrumentation-and all the scholarly weight of a new musicology that insists on a strictly paleontological presentation. One side, mainly distinguished by the presence of Eugene Ormandy, plays Bach with a flourish and sensuality better saved for Wagner; the other side, which at its extreme is manned by cliques of musical pedants who play in ensembles with names like Pro Arta Antarctica, believes Bach must never be played away from the harpsichord and organ. In the artistic center of the interpretive storm...