Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered Nixon to turn over 64 new tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. Those tapes contained information that indicated that Nixon agreed to and took part in the Watergate cover-up; that was the end of the road for Richard Nixon. Gerald Ford took over as president, and the glorious triumphs of the 37th president have become just an ironic footnote in history...
...most enjoys performing. "The one by Brahms -if only he had written it for cello," was the virtuoso's reply. He was referring, he would explain, to Opus 78, the G Major Sonata for Violin and Piano, an introspective work tinged with Nordic melancholy. "It is the most glorious Brahms," says Starker, "and it has been the dream of all cellists some day to be able to play it." No one, however, dared transcribe the violin work for cello, but early this year a transcription by Brahms himself was discovered. Last week at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park...
Jessica Richman's Hypatia, a beefy beauty with a lusty voice who fairly dances about the stage is quite the "glorious young beast" Lord Summerhays takes her for. Alison Stanley, as the more independent and less romantically disposed Lina, also strikes a strong and appealing posture. The men are all competent, too--David Aston-Reese appropriately sincere and mindless as Johnny Tarleton, Patrick Young properly insufferable as pitiful little Bentley Summerhays, and Jonathan Frakes, quite the gentleman and quite not the gentleman as the moment demands, as the attractive visitor...
Fortunately, the music of Seraglio is one glorious moment after another, and here there was no disappointment...
...basic tools of design. In one of the poems used to punctuate the series of prints and paintings, Josef Albers speaks of art as "essentially purpose/and seeing (schauen) that form demands/multiple presentation/manifold performance." In this display of the works of Josef and Anni Albers we are treated to a glorious wealth of multiple presentation that affirms the creative intelligence of the artists...