Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope to have about 300 combatants in authentic dress to do the fighting, and are looking into the possibilities of renting (for the monetary equivalent of peanuts) six mamouth elephants to cross the Lars Andersen Bridge," Peter J. Gable '68 said...
...schedule for the upcoming season: in addition to Antony and Cleopatra, it includes an unprecedented nine new productions, including such contemporary operas as Britten's Peter Grimes and the world premiere of Marvin Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra...
...landed in England on a rolling Sussex Downs estate, and there the two founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took a job as a coupon clerk in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...
Intimate Lighting is another exquisite Czech comedy by one of the scenarists of Loves of a Blonde, 33-year-old Director Ivan Passer. Slight but abrim with self-assurance, the film simply jogs along delightfully from moment to moment, following a young middle-aged musician, Peter, who takes his cello and his mistress to the country for a day or so, intending to play a concert with his former classmate, Bambas...
...existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter's giddy girl friend for sexual overtures and fun with a cat. The scene is a brilliant tour de force of unstrained comic invention...