Word: perched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Komische Oper since 1947; of cancer; in East Berlin. One of the century's most influential operatic impresarios, Vienna-born Felsenstein was a demanding perfectionist who sometimes rehearsed for 36-hour stretches. Once, when a reluctant chorus member declined to jump from a 7-ft.-high perch, Felsenstein made the leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding "Now will you jump?" Felsenstein retained his Austrian citizenship and commuted daily from his home in West Berlin to the East, where he turned the Komische Oper into the Communist regime's leading cultural...
...Brown enthusiast, who spent many afternoons not so long ago in Brown stadium watching the Bruins stumble, bumble, and somehow fumble more than one victory away, the sight of their current perch is about as believable as an automatic...
...Boston Globe recently reported similar bets between the governors of Massachusetts and Ohio and the mayors of Boston and Cincinnati. Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis bet 20 pounds of Massachusetts cod against Ohio Gov. James Rhode's wager of a bushel of corn, ten pounds of Lake Erie perch, and ten pounds of Ohio River catfish...
...took two years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported one who got but a fleeting glance: "I've got my mind on what I'm doing, trying to catch up with a super pair of seat covers...
When he was diverted from a fashion assignment and ordered to cover the European Security Conference in Helsinki for an Italian weekly last July, Freelance Photographer Franco Rossi, 35, was impressed by the elaborate security arrangements-at first. From his balcony perch in Finlandia House he watched no fewer than seven U.S. Secret Service men checking the area where Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger were to sit. "I saw them even taste the water in Ford and Kissinger's carafes," says Rossi. The photographer had been standing at his tripod for three tedious hours when finally, he recalls...