Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next year, Guy later commissioned Einstein on the Beach, which had its premiere in July 1976 after a year of rehearsals. The unconventional Einstein was a near pantomime set to Wilson's typically elliptical spoken texts and allusive stage pictures of railroad trains and spaceships. There were no formal arias or indeed any set pieces at all; a small chorus sang "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight" and solfege syllables (do, re, mi) over hypnotic, relentless music. Sellout audiences loved it. The work toured Europe and then came to the Met in November...
...ferment was the notion that an artist need not be confined to a single area of specialization. Instead, eclecticism ruled. Glass's early minimalist pieces relied heavily on unvarnished scale passages, enraging some listeners who thought his music sounded more like etudes than formal compositions. Anderson tried her hand at sculpture before evolving her distinctive combination of music, narrative, films and slides. In The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, which received its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973, Wilson welded elements of painting, set design, music, ballet and pantomime into a single twelve-hour work...
...donated use of a health spa, and TV and radio stations are contributing free airtime for SADD pleas asking students to sign lifetime "contracts" with parents promising to avoid drunk driving. In Houston, a cab company is offering free rides to inebriated promgoers, and tuxedos rented from Al's Formal Wear will come with a printed warning about drinking and driving. Students in several Boston suburbs who promise not to use alcohol or drugs on prom night get a discounted limousine and cut-rate tuxedo rentals. There are no pledges to sign, but if the limo driver thinks the verbal...
Icahn has made no formal bid to take control of the company, but he has had private meetings with TWA officials. At first the raider suggested that TWA should abandon many domestic routes and sell off parts of the airline. But he quickly backed away from that proposal after TWA officials contended it would not be feasible because the airline needs its domestic routes to feed passengers into its overseas flights. Wall Streeters doubt that Icahn will be successful in overhauling TWA. They point out that he would run into a maze of regulatory and financing problems. Said one industry...
...Faculty endowed the CRR with tribunal-like powers; and permission to use hearsay evidence, to appeals of convictions, and the right to hand down any type of sentence. This includes anything from a formal warning to probation to--with the Faculty's approval--expulsion from Harvard...