Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the weekend, 5 in. of rain had fallen on Toccoa ("beautiful place" in the Cherokee language). The swollen, 50-acre-wide lake at the head of the valley burst the earthen dam, which had been built in 1901 and enlarged in 1937. Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on high ground and was spared: "I believe God took home the people he wanted to take home. They were all born-again believers. This is a victory for them." College President Kenn Opperman called the disaster "an obstacle we are going to convert into a steppingstone. This is a privilege...
...variety of dynamic tensions characterized all three of the works that the Boston Ballet presented last week at the Music Hall, in the opening series of performances of the 1977-78 season. The program, which ran through Sunday, began with Act II of Swan Lake, the famous moonlit encounter of a prince with the enchanted Swan-Queen. Separating this act from the full ballet proved to be something of a mutilation; it cancelled the careful dramatic architecture of the whole, forcing the audience to view the ballet as "pure dance." Yet this limited view is not totally stifling...
...RECENT SOLO WORK Lazarus, which followed the unexceptional Swan Lake, was nothing less than awesome. From the moment Tony Catanzaro's Lazarus emerged from the yellow light of the tomb, crouched like some deformed insect, the struggle of form against space and life against death riveted the audience. Catanzaro used his considerable physical power to convey an intense emotional compression, and as the dance toiled upward from the ground he grappled with space as though the very air around him were thick with death...
...million.' The boycott was born last February as the Nevada legislature was voting on the ERA. The California branches of NOW and of the League of Women Voters took out a small ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, urging weekend gamblers to stay away from Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and other Nevada gambling spots. Recalls Jeane Bendorf, chairman of the chapter's political task force: "Nevada Governor Mike O'Callaghan called and screamed at us to stop any further ads. We realized we had hit a pressure point." At a meeting in February, the NOW national board...