Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jiang finds himself thrust into the limelight in what already promises to be a watershed year in Chinese affairs. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will pay her maiden call at his office this week. Despite the official six-day period of mourning, Beijing quickly cabled Albright that they wished the meeting to go ahead. "They want to take her measure, and they want to show that it's business as usual," says a senior State Department official. Vice President Al Gore is expected in March. The national parliament opens its annual session that month, and the 15th Party Congress...
Rosenberg eventually figured out how to do it and, on Friday February 21, his first movie Hotel de Love will open in theaters across America. In a phone interview with the Crimson, he discussed his maiden voyage on the big screen...
Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden...
...distant age of sensitive nineteenth-century guys, Franz Schubert joined the bandwagon of paesan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and fellow German Romantics, over-analyzing every passing emotion and fluttering of the heart. Here in the twenty-song cycle of Die Schone Mullerin (The Fair Maiden of the Mill), Schubert indulges his delicate sensibilities with harmonically textured compositions set to the often silly poetry of Wilhelm Muller. Schubert wrote more than 600 of these "lieder" (songs), elevating it to a major musical art form...
...trouble is that Harry, bribed and bludgeoned into cooperation, has no idea what he has to sell or what Osnard and his superiors back in London want to purchase. So Osnard drops clues that he picked up from his boss Scottie Luxmore before being posted, on his maiden spying mission, to Panama. He recalls Luxmore warming to the topic at hand: "Not only have the Americans signed a totally misbegotten treaty with the Panamanians--given away the shop, thank you very much Mr. Jimmy Carter!--they're also proposing to honour it." A frightful power vacuum will occur, Luxmore argues...