Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston's Logan Airport often require airliners to land and take off with tailwinds, as well as use the same runways for arrival and departure. At night, planes must approach and depart over Boston Bay. Says a senior airline pilot: "It's like descending into a black pit over that...
...arrogance," says Ball, who carefully practiced Tucker's mannerisms and purposeful strut across the stage. But Lucy could not master Sophie's sweeping bow. "When you take a fast bow in a fat suit, you pitch forward," she explains. "That bow almost landed me in the orchestra pit...
...romp through Americana at Manhattan's City Center last week. It was the first Broadway run for the troupe that Joseph Papp has housed at the Public Theater for all of its nearly three-year existence. This time the company danced to a real orchestra, playing in the pit, instead of to a solo piano or a tape. The stars were Christine Sarry, Feld's favorite ballerina, and Guest Artist Mikhail Baryshnikov...
...even Shattuck's soaring soprano can overcome the determined opposition of the cymbals--especially since their frequencies are very close. Part of the problem is the thick-textured score, with its constant cacophony and acoustical fireworks; part of the trouble is the structure of Agassiz, which lacks a pit or shell to muffle the orchestra. Still, director Leslie Koenig and musical director Ken Getz should have worked out some compromise so that the audience could hear the lyrics as well as the music...
...province. With the troops were several jueces de mesta (police magistrates). The official charge that brought them there: five of Varilla's campesino families had aided antigovernment guerrillas. The soldiers shot, bayoneted or strangled four men, eleven women and 29 children. After dumping the bodies in an unmarked pit, the magistrates divided the villagers' land among themselves...