Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resulting campaign has been exceptionally personal, focusing on the very character traits that so concern the undecideds. Peres has followed what Americans might call a Rose Garden strategy, emphasizing his official duties as Prime Minister rather than electioneering. He underscored his world status last month during a high-profile lovefest with Bill Clinton in Washington--where the Administration, concerned about the health of the peace process, made abundantly clear its preference for Peres over Netanyahu...
...that it's necessary to have read The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life to pick up on the action and characters of Babel Tower. Still, the opening pages suggest that a lot has gone on before anything here begins...
...Spectrum Singers perform Mozart's Coronation Mass and Schubert's Stabat Mater and Magnificat at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden...
...preparing for Carnegie Hall after his triumph at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow: "Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler...he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir...Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, 'Maestro, let us pray.' Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said Van: 'God give us his grace and power to make good music together...
Finally, it would be a disservice to the play to omit mention of the various other experimental devices or odd techniques. These range from the set pregnant with meaning (the plain soil of a garden; the sexually suggestive rope of a swing) to the rather obtrusive lighting (a programmed sequence of flashes as Dora polishes a plate). The sun seems to rise and set in the same place, or never to set; a moon figures prominently as well. Singing crops up now and again unexpectedly. Sound effects--a car starting, space-aged boings--provide a sort...