Word: pit
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...walls are adorned with old playbills and posters advertising events from generations past—the Theatre nevertheless manages to shoehorn in a 270-seat theater with a new sound system, motorized lights, and a stage thrust that also serves as a scenery elevator or a orchestra pit, depending on the production’s need. Offices and new rehearsal space fill the rest of the carefully designed six-story building, half of which is entirely underground...
Saturday’s matchup between the No. 7 Harvard men’s soccer team (8-2-1, 1-1-0 Ivy) and the No. 20 Brown Bears (9-1-1, 2-0-0) was supposed to pit the Ivy League’s two best teams against each other. It did. It was supposed to be a physical battle from start to finish. It was. And it was supposed to play a huge role in deciding who will be crowned the Ivy League champion next month. But after losing, 3-2, in overtime, the Crimson is hoping...
Dana Knox, the new Production Coordinator of College Theatre, is eager to show off the new space. The theater’s recent upgrades include a 272-seat theater with computerized, industry-standard lighting; a mechanized orchestra pit; and a convertible rehearsal and performance space the same size as the main stage...
...almost a half-century by a barbaric military junta. Burma's monkhood and military are roughly the same size--each has 300,000 to 400,000 men--but there the similarities end. With the monks preaching tolerance and peace and the military demanding obedience at gunpoint, these protests pit Burma's most beloved institution against its most reviled...
...tame compared with what's most likely in store. Who will emerge strongest after the rubble has settled? No one knows, of course, but one instinct tells me that Rudy will have lost less blood when it's all said and done, based on his experience in the mud pit of New York City politics. Giuliani has another card to play, too: he will be arguing, in effect, "I'm not perfect, but I'll keep you safer...