Word: lusterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (from the "New World"). Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (London). Out of the media spotlight, Dohnanyi has been quietly restoring the full luster of the Cleveland Orchestra since he succeeded Lorin Maazel in 1984. Rich, detailed and burnished, this handsome "New World" Symphony shows why the Cleveland under its German-born leader is now the best-sounding orchestra in the country. Pass the word...
...bored -- its audiences while building a reputation as perhaps the nation's most prestigious regional theater. Although Brustein routinely disparages Broadway, some of his productions end up there, including the 1983 Pulitzer prizewinner, 'Night, Mother. The troupe received Broadway's highest accolade, a Tony Award, last June. A.R.T.'s luster has been augmented by its affiliations with universities -- Yale from 1966 to mid-1979 (another ensemble now performs as the Yale Repertory Theater) and since then Harvard. But its main claim to glory is the quality of its work and the actors who have performed there, from Meryl Streep...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look at the romantic past and bureaucratic present of the flourishing espionage business...
...years, as have maintenance and investment in new buildings. At the same time, enrollment has boomed. Equipment and funds are scarce, classes overcrowded; more than 60% of enrollees drop out after their first year. Even the Sorbonne, the most famous of French universities, has lost much of its academic luster...
Paul Laxalt. His luster was dimmed by the loss of his handpicked successor in the Nevada Senate race. Even worse, he put his prestige and the President's on the line after ignoring party entreaties not to give up the seat...