Word: portentousness
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Yesterday's game was disappointing, but Harvard hopes not a portent of worse things to come...
...third round of the Andy Williams Open under a sappy tree. Tired of being described as a bag of cantaloupes, Stadler put down a towel before slapping the ball out and cheerfully going about his business. The next day, a bee stabbed him during his round, a portent of stings to come. While Stadler was persevering to a second-place finish worth $37,333.33, TV replayed his arboreal adventure. The switchboard, as they...
...another, starting on Monday, when the First National Bank & Trust of Oklahoma City (assets: $1.6 billion) collapsed from the weight of bad energy loans. It was the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history (after the 1974 fall of the New York-based Franklin National Bank) and a likely portent of another round of financial trauma in the oil patch. Just two days later, BankAmerica (assets: $117 billion), the No. 2 banking company in the U.S. after Citicorp, announced a second-quarter loss of $640 million, the second-biggest on record for a financial institution. That brought the troubled bank...
...common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld, but he ends up wearing punk costumes and too much mascara. The picture in turn is plastered over with a heavy layer of intellectual pancake. It is all pretense and portent up to a wild shoot-out at the end, wittily imagined, cunningly staged. But not, perhaps, quite enough of a reward for those who wait around...
...extravagant affair lasting eight hours; offering a nonstop parade of stars (Domingo, Pavarotti, Milnes, Sutherland, Nilsson, Te Kanawa, among 90 others), it seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life on Oct. 22, 1883, in a nondescript yellow brick building at Broadway and 39th Street in Manhattan, and has evolved into the leading opera company in the U.S. and one of the world's foremost...