Word: mmerung
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...gentle slide of the pound had been viewed by many economists as a healthy means of erasing some of the trading disadvantages created by the differing rates of inflation between Britain and its competitors. But now the slide was clearly threatening to become a financial Götterdämmerung. Said one Cabinet minister: "Nothing can concentrate Harold's mind more quickly than a fall in the pound...
...confiscated the gewgaws. West German television stations barred Reich commercials when they appeared to stress the frivolous side of Nazism's adolescence. Reich's Hamburg publisher, John Jahr Co., then agreed to include "negative" scenes in the TV spots depicting Nazism's Götterdämmerung...
...Birgit Nilsson, 55, is understandably cautious around the holes, traps, platforms, rising elevators, special effects and other hurdles that wait in ambush on the operatic stage. But last week, as she carefully felt her way through a dress rehearsal for the Metropolitan Opera production of Götterdämmerung, the singer was ensnared by a shaky staircase. As she stepped from a stage platform onto the stairs, the structure collapsed, sending her tumbling four feet to the floor. Hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder, face cuts and multiple bruises, Good Trouper Nilsson dismissed her injuries with "I did not hurt...
...watches her in a lesbian embrace. Then Honda's mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji burns to the ground like a pyre at Benares, the flyaway ashes sporadically sizzling into his new swimming pool. The combination of filigreed Oriental pornography and slightly cheap Götterdämmerung has sometimes been a contaminating tendency in Mishima's work. But the rest of the book plausibly suggests a writer whose gifts amount at least to minor genius...
...year's deficit was a mere $74,000, lowest since the pre-crisis year of 1963 Last week, the city's music lovers were crammed excitedly into Orchestra Hall for Solti's concert performance of Act III of Wagner's Die Götterdämmerung They witnessed a true musical event. Tenor Jess Thomas died magnificently as Siegfried, and the audience could almost feel the flames as Soprano Helga Dernesch submitted herself to Brünnhilde's immolation. It was a remarkable performance, a fitting finish to Solti's successful spring stint...