Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Sir Rudolf Bing has ruled New York's Metropolitan Opera with an iron fist, influencing people but making few friends by imposing rigid discipline on his staff and summarily firing such stars as Baritone Robert Merrill and Maria Callas. Austrian by birth, British and American by achievement, Bing was given the highest accolade of his career last June when the British government made him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. But in New York, familiarity had bred discontent. All the more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked...
...trinkets. Now a band of enterprising Navajos in Arizona hopes to Indian-wrestle some of their ancestors' money back. The group plans to build a $10 million resort on the shores of Lake Powell featuring a full-scale gambling casino. They should mine plenty of yellow iron-if the Arizona authorities let them get away with...
...Crimson will show only about a third of its offensive sets this weekend, due mainly to the fact that it takes time to iron out all the cogs in a system as varied as Restic...
...Crimson will show only about a third of its offensive sets this weekend, due mainly to the fact that it takes time to iron out all the cogs in a system as varied as Restic...
...through Stonehenge in a torrential downpour pursuing a brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating it with Moggerhanger's daughter in the lavatory of an airliner high over France. As for that iron lung, it turns out to be fake...