Word: jet-lagged
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...price of a fast-paced international career. Salonen already knows the dangers firsthand: while conducting a concert of new music a few years ago with his other orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, he temporarily blacked out, exhausted, and had to start over. He hopes to avoid being a "jet-lag conductor" by settling professionally in Los Angeles. Next season will be his last in Stockholm. "Being music director of one orchestra is enough," he says. But an added attraction in California is the enterprising Music Center Opera company; he's talking about leading a Boris Godunov there...
...quite an experience to jump the political spectrum in addition to suffering from jet-lag," Waldorf says...
...Crimson must shake jet-lag by Wednesday night in time to host Dartmouth in the Ivy League opener for both teams. The game starts at 8 p.m. in the IAB. All-Ivy forward Larry Lawrence has graduated and high-tailed it out of Handover, so the Crimson should win this one. Be there sports...
...write introductions to his plays that speak of ritual Indian drug use and the tradition of the shaman--and all of them are full of shit. You can't follow Shepard from word to word, because his transitional sentences are emotional. His characters are suffering from psychotic jet-lag and even though the fact that their minds have been careening from one end of the cortex to the other cannot really count for travel anymore, but they move all the same. It's the language of the awful silence...
...water and don't eat food. To give himself more leg room and use his time more profitably to get work done, he sits whenever possible in an aisle seat and never volunteers to exchange business cards. He is wary of the judgment-distorting dangers of jet-lag fatigue and rarely signs a contract on the same day that he travels through multiple time zones, whether east or west. On the other hand, he does not hesitate to strike a deal upon deplaning from a north-south trip where there are no time-zone changes...