Word: knights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent Pennsylvania Opera Theater production of Orlando Paladino, a work that alternates buffa elements with more serious moments, showed the best reason for giving Haydn's operas a hearing: their scores. To the lovesick knight Orlando (Tenor John Gilmore), crazed by a passion for Angelica, the Queen of Cathay, Haydn gave a stirring entrance that suggests the depths of the mad paladin's emotion. On Angelica (Soprano Randi Marrazzo), he lavished arias in each act that shimmer with dazzling coloratura and touching pathos. And for the finale, he composed a high-spirited, catchy septet that reconciles the conflicting...
...rest of the period, the icemen controlled the Golden Knights at center ice with stiff forechecking. Just when it looked like the game would go to the third stanza with the score still tied. Mark Fusco took the puck into the Golden Knight zone, skated from right to left, pulling Sylvestri to his side, and then sliding the puck across to Jim Turner, who calmly popped his second straight game-winning goal into...
...wife's waffle iron. He wrecked the appliance, but he created Nike's famous waffle sole. When Americans of every age took to running in the mid-1970s, Nike was ready with products for the new market. "We are just a bunch of guys selling sneakers," says Knight. Among those guys is Neil Goldschmidt, Secretary of Transportation under Jimmy Carter and a former Portland mayor. Goldschmidt is now Nike's vice president in charge of international marketing...
...Knight makes regular journeys to Asia to line up new suppliers. He recently added several factories in China to a list of manufacturers in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Knight has revived a bit of the American shoe industry by establishing plants in Exeter, N.H., and Saco, Me. He expects that Nike sales will continue moving as fast as the champion runners in his shoes...
Here is George Orwell, resembling "Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ... A kind of dry egotism has burnt him out." Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising ?25 for his capture: "It's more than they would offer...