Word: length
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...three weeks his latest opera, Akhnaten, gets its British premiere at the English National Opera in London. Akhnaten received its first performance last year in Stuttgart, and has since played to packed houses in Houston and New York City. An earlier full-length opera, Satyagraha, which has had several productions in the U.S. and Europe, has been recorded by CBS Masterworks for release in July; Beverly Sills, a confirmed fan, has scheduled it for the New York City Opera next year. And last December the Brooklyn Academy of Music revived Einstein on the Beach, a 4 1/2-hour opera by Glass...
Image is an obsession. "There's no such thing as a fat yuppie," says Gene Street, principal owner of SRO, a fashionable Dallas restaurant and bar that features full-length mirrors in the men's lounge. "It's all part of a wave of self-love," says Author-Humorist Fran Lebowitz. "They've overweighted the sanctity of the human body. These bodies aren't temples. They're barely bodegas." Says Screenwriter Greenfeld: "It's fear of embarrassment. In Hollywood you can stuff coke up your nose until it falls off. But God forbid you should appear drunk in public...
...meter course length, expanded this year from 1500 meters, has caused inconsistent and unpredictable racing results from even the best crews. For instance, Yale defensed Dartmouth, and Dartmouth defeated Radcliffe--but Radcliffe destroyed Yale by more than 10 seconds...
...meter length has made the whole process variable," says Radcliffe Coach Lisa Stone. "All the crews are so mercurial...
Another of the issues on which the Committee wants to have it both ways is that of reduction in length of time to degree Almost all graduate students want to finish more quickly, but we cannot do this unless we are given substantially more financial support. A reduction in teaching load (recommended in the Report) must be accompanied by an increase in fellowships, not explicitly promised by the Report...