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...stage for 25 minutes or a half hour without moving. Because servants or soldiers tend to be rather stiff and withdrawn, standing still is crucially important. And half an hour is long. In the last scene of [Wagner's] Lohengrin we had to stand with an 18-foot pike for half an hour, supposedly not moving--in full armor! It was boiling hot because they make the costumes look real--they don't make them to suit the climate. And you had to use both hands to keep the pike from falling over, because it was very heavy and really...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

Sports fishermen had largely given up on the lakes, as stocks of walleyed pike, lake trout and other game species disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson faltered at the start of the second half. UConn capitalized, with 28:20 remaining when Heidi Pike slapped the ball past an immobile Ippolito, who had attempted to kick the ball away, but discovered a prostrate Husky at her feet...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Stickwomen Bow to Powerful Huskies | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

...poster above the driver's seat read, "Don't ask me to think--I was hired for my looks." Tall, blond, and paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn't see you in a strip joint on 42nd Street...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...assessing Beckford's athletic and personal attributes, women's track coach Pappy Hunt was not as subtle as Babington: "Kids like Beckford come down the pike only every 25 years...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Local Star Beckford Runs On | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

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