Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elton John has always come across as a multitalented, multifaceted personality. His music gives me the same kind of tingling effect as Debussy's Clair de Lune, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake or Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
...cream. He has noted the real estate progress on the helicopter route from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base, remarked on the beauty of the Maryland mountains over which he flies to Camp David, and just two weeks ago he looked down on the islands of Lake Michigan, picking out the ones where he had canoed and camped...
...lavish A.B.T. production is the first complete American version of this three-act ballet in nearly 30 years. In one sense, the neglect is hard to explain, since Raymonda is one of five surviving full-length works (including Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake) of the 60 or so ballets created by the great Marius Petipa principally for St. Petersburg's Maryinsky Theater. The choreography ranks with Petipa's most inventive, and the score by Alexander Glazunov is both limpid and melodious...
...Salt Lake City, an unprepossessing group of trolley barns built in 1908 houses a thriving shopping and entertainment center. In Chicago, a seven-decade-old building that served variously as a hospital and a whorehouse is now a popular restaurant. In San Antonio, a vast brewery is being converted into an art museum. In San Francisco, a plant that once processed chicken feathers for pillow stuffing has been transformed into an office building. In Galveston, New Orleans, New York and scores of other U.S. cities, old buildings are being put to new uses. They are, in the current jargon, being...
...young woman who narrates Fresh Meat/ Warm Weather is eagerly honest about everything: her childhood in a family of Jack Mormons (those who do not keep "the Word of Wisdom"); an early marriage that produced two daughters and a desperate infidelity; flight from Salt Lake City to sinful Los Angeles; a second marriage to an aspiring musician who hurries back to the car after his wedding meal so he won't miss the Top 100 on the radio...