Word: pitting
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...Wright, which has a turntable stage flanked by two side stages, a unique lighting system, superstereophonic acoustics; Palm Beach's 813-seat Royal Poinciana Playhouse, whose stage apron curves out to provide more acting area, or, in the case of a musical, slides back to open an orchestra pit; Hollywood's 1,024-seat Huntington Hartford Theater, lavishly decorated with relief sculpture; Phoenix' 523-seat Sombrero Playhouse, which includes clubrooms and an art gallery...
...fancy dress ball, but this time Poet W. H. Auden and Collaborator Chester Kallman managed to provide language that was not ridiculed by the music or drowned by it; the TV microphone clearly picked out the words that, in an opera house, usually fail to cross the orchestra pit. As a result, with the exception of a few close calls on bathos, NBC's gingery Don Giovanni played almost like a new story...
...working life. One of the first and most publicized of city communes was at the coal-mining center of Yangchuan in Shansi province. At Yangchuan. according to the Peking People's Daily, "living quarters were readjusted so that cadres, workers and their dependents are housed according to their pit, shifts, sections and teams." That done, "political, cultural and physical-culture activities were organized . . . Each person is a worker-soldier, as well as a student, whose living quarters are workshop, barracks and classroom...
...forever on the move: he bounces onstage to demonstrate high-jumping technique or prowls the auditorium calling out sudden changes in the script. He carves the air with the sweeping gestures of an orchestra conductor, comes to roost like a stork, one leg cocked, on the rail of the pit. "Give it music." he may order an actor, or "Give it a Marlon Brando mumble...
Brazil's Oct. 3 presidential election, the most important political event of the year in Latin America, will pit a stone-spined old soldier with a leftwing, nationalist program against a fiery-eyed spellbinder whose platform is austere conservatism. One afternoon last week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65, resigned as War Minister in order "to go into the arena with no privileges or priorities." Then the red-cheeked descendant of Dutch-English immigrants slipped into mufti in an adjoining room, walked out to a waiting Jeep, and drove off through popping firecrackers...