Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience at Ghosts, which is being performed during the next three weeks, wearies of the attenuated, ectoplasmic string sounds that emanate rather too frequently from the pit, there is always some action to watch onstage. This show never quits. The marvel is that it has been fashioned out of what would seem to be very awkward, complex material. Corigliano was interested in a story that would include the characters from The Marriage of Figaro as they appear 20 years later in Beaumarchais's play La Mere Coupable. He asked his librettist, William Hoffman, "to create a libretto that...
...government agents dismantle Saccoccia's web, they marvel at his sophistication. "He was a tough micromanager who dictated every piece of the operation and castigated his subordinates regularly for not doing deals fast enough," says Charles Domroe, who heads the FBI's narcotics unit in New York. "He is also the first known launderer to serve both the Medellin and the Cali cartels." Among those indicted with Saccoccia is a man he allegedly answered to, a Miami-based trafficker for the Cali group named Duvan ("Uncle") Arboleda, who slipped quietly and safely back to Colombia two months...
...complex. Crews worked around the clock for three years, blasting and excavating in a damp but constant temperature of 52 degrees F. Fowler was foreman of one of the three 40-man shifts. "That was some rough, tough, dirty work," he recalls. Between 1953 and 1969, Fowler witnessed a marvel of engineering, working first for the Bureau of Mines and later for the Army Corps of Engineers. "It was amazing the way they could drive a straight line through solid rock," he says. Inside the mountain the tunnel was gradually expanded into a self-sustaining underground complex...
...GRATIFIED, therefore, that Gomes has at last affirmed in public that position which it has for a long time apparently pleased him to assume in private. The Reverend Peter J. Gomes has spoken, and I cannot but marvel at the new expansiveness of that liberty with which Christ has set us free...
...White House differ over how aggressively to implement a law, the council moves in to referee. Staffed by fewer than a dozen officials, who are, even by Bush White House standards, unusually conservative, the council regularly sides with business against the environment. Even Administration officials marvel at how powerful the body has become. "Because Quayle has Bush's total confidence," said a former Administration official, "nobody can touch those guys...