Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another figure, bent like a discus thrower, balances on one foot and listens raptly to a conch shell. A man dressed like a mechanic, a red wrench protruding from his hip pocket, obsessively chalks mathematical equations in the air. A handsome gray steam engine chugs into view. From the pit a chorus raises a wordless three-note chant...
...voted for Carter. My team won and I should be rejoicing. But suddenly I have this funny feeling in the pit of my stomach...
...would not much matter if the music had independent life. Instead, the score is a shameless pastiche, something that Erich Korngold, the peerless artificer of movie music, would have deeply appreciated. Wagner (including an outright steal of Tristan's theme for Roland), Meyerbeer, Offenbach, all emerge from the pit. The vocal music is lifted mostly from Berlioz, who wrote wonderfully sensuous love duets. The pity is that in Manon, Massenet created an ineffable erotic style...
...father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "We're in for some surprises...
...pure chance?or, some say, typically astute Ludwig intelligence?the Jari property also turned out to contain a rich deposit of kaolin, a clay used in making coatings for high-gloss paper. Huge earth-moving machines are now gouging the white stuff out of an enormous open pit mine and feeding it into a $23 million processing plant that started up two months...