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...dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat on gondolas. Consecutive scenes shift disconcertingly from nighttime to broad daylight and back again. Most of the music is lip-synched to a prerecorded track; inside or out, wind or rain, we hear the souped-up ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting lose touch with each other and finally with the sense of the libretto. The most absurd example...
...Paul VI paid lip service to collegiality and established the synod, but he really never implemented the Second Vatican Council's concept of consultation...
...faced with a build-up of aggressiveness in the NATO bloc," railed Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. U.S. leaders, he declared last week, were paying lip service to peaceful cooperation while actually fomenting "an atmosphere of fear" and "whipping up the arms race." With some of the toughest public language used by any Soviet leader in years, he even accused the U.S. of making "concrete plans and preparations for a war aimed against the U.S.S.R. and its allies...
...strong but silent" side of Johnson clearly when Johnson was forced to leave the Dartmouth game with a gash in her lip. After receiving seven stitches, she came back to watch the rest of the match and the next week played against UMass with a mouthguard...
Midway through the first half, it seemed that someone had jinxed the Crimson as both Gia Johnson and St. Louis received blows from Princeton players. Johnson took a knee to the mouth which pushed back one tooth and cut a gash on the inside of her lip that required seven stitches. Minutes later, a Princton defensman caught St. Louis' leg when both brought their knees up to meet a waist-high bouncer, forcing the Crimson star to the sidelines with a bruised knee. Both players are expected to play on Tuesday against Massachusetts...