Word: foremost
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Such an interpretation is not without its perils, unintended laughter being foremost among them. It is difficult, for example, to understand how Siegfried slays Fafner by wounding him in a horned extremity. Nor is the production immune to directly contradicting the sense of the text. When Brunnhilde tells Siegmund that he must die in his forthcoming battle with Hunding, it is imperative that the exhausted fighter actually look upon her for the scene to make dramatic sense, especially since English supertitles are used. Further, some of the ideas are not very original. The use of 19th century costume (Wotan...
...hearth dominates American playwriting. Of the nation's foremost dramatists -- the likes of Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and the early Edward Albee -- only Arthur Miller has consistently reached out beyond domestic grief to comment on public life. For that aspiration, Miller has often been rebuked and advised to return to family melodrama. Probably no rejection hurt more than the fate of his The American Clock, a poignant panorama of what the 1930s did to the country's psyche; it opened on Broadway in November 1980 and lasted barely two weeks. Miller has not brought a new play...
...Busch-Reisinger, founded in 1903 and later supported by prominent benefactors including Aldophus Busch of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger, is considered the foremost museum of German art on this continent. The Gothic building, which boost a Flentrop organ and original arches, houses works by Walter Gropius and Lyonel Feininger as well as Renaissance and Medieval...
...Reagan letter was approved after two days of particularly intense senior-level infighting and sent to Moscow last Friday. If it leads to a compromise between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, fine; but it is first and foremost a compromise between State and Defense, an instrument not so much of international diplomacy as of bureaucratic management...
...International interest rates have been dropping steadily, clearing away yet another obstacle to growth. In the U.S., the declining dollar has been named a harbinger of strengthened international competitiveness, meaning that the country's bedraggled manufacturing and farming sectors would once again revive and help refuel the world's foremost engine of economic expansion...