Word: medley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rivalrous. But their insistence that they are in fact good colleagues has the ring of truth to it. Domingo, 53, and Pavarotti, 58, especially, have huge careers, more work than they can possibly handle. The evidence of good fellowship can be found on the 1990 video, in the medley that closes the concert and is at the heart of its success (there will be two of them this time). Says Carreras, 46: "The audience loves most the things that seem to happen spontaneously, and we are all Latins who like improvisation...
There can be no legislation to bring about this diversity, no policy from on high. University Hall can only assure that Harvard classes have a cosmetic diversity, a medley of colors and cultures that while important, is often only skin deep. As for the real diversity--the real diversity must transpire from within...
...death in inconceivable numbers stayed on the retina, a kind of warning. Africa, after all, has a talent for apocalypses -- droughts and famines, annihilating plagues and slaughters. Still, even the occasional apocalypse is not necessarily a continent's final destiny. Europe's history too has been, at intervals, a medley of famine, plague and tribal butchery bureaucratized up to genocide...
...actually had to ask a fan seated behind me to explain what an individual medley race...
This year, the sheriff slated to open the ceremonies is under indictment for a medley of not -so-savory criminal charges...