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What remained an insurmountable problem was the lack of a orchestra pit. While the overture captivated the audience and its later accompaniments were well-timed, the 28 member orchestra tended to overshadow the singers, rendering many of the lyrics incomprehensible and sometimes difficult to hear...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Die Fledermaus, Batty and Entertaining Fun | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...singling out great songs is what I'm here to do. So. "A Pit With Spikes" (a simpler version of which came out late last year as the "advance single") is a witty, sad, reticent boy's version of a romantic breakdown: he begins by telling a girl that their future is up to her, and ends in a swoon of self-accusation: "A pit with spikes is what I'm bringing you, hon.../ I'm not so deep that I can't be swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...charged the pit, wanting to touch this awesome piece of metal And thousands followed behind. we gathered around the driver, holding hands and singing...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Two Confessions | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...flatbed train, the soldiers survey their stock -- a pile of emaciated bodies, hundreds of men, dead or near dead -- and begin their work. With brute efficiency they toss the bodies into a deep, burning pit. Down the hill the bodies roll, toward incineration. They don't slide with the burly grace of stunt men; they topple clumsily, bumping into one another, robbed of dignity even in their dying. For agonizing minutes the carnage continues, until the soldiers' job is done and the pit smolders with an almost visible stench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tidings of Job | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In response to the administration, the Advisory Committee has proposed that the Museum continue its important work of exploration, teaching, and research, and continue its program of public exhibits, but curtail its practice of pouring money we do not have into the bottomless pit of the photo Archive. Unfortunately this can be done only by radically streamlining the Museum staff...

Author: By Frank MOORE Cross, | Title: A Reply to Martin Peretz | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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