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...bouncy rhythms of Dorinda's first-act aria on the ineffable nature of love--she's the beach bunny, nee shepherdess--become the excuse for an hilarious mock-disco strut. Later in the opera, when Dorinda sings of love's bitterness, it is Sellars's inspiration that she pour herself a stiff drink between repetitions (all Orlando's arias consist of six or eight lines repeated again and again), with the result that her octave leaps slowly become sozzled hiccups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stellar Handel | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...hour of need, Roberts was not found wanting. Money started to pour in after the evangelist told of a visitation by a 900-ft.-tall Jesus who said, "I told you I would speak to your partners and through them I would build it." And objections were overridden after state officials were hit with thousands of letters from Roberts' followers. The evangelist says he persisted in the four-year effort because if he did not build the City of Faith, "I would be disobedient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: When God Talks, Oral Listens | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Rather than spend large sums of money for legal expenses by challenging the NLRB's 1977 ruling in court, Steiner and his team decided to pour funds into another anti-union campaign. Both the union and the University thought the experience of the 1977 vote would help them, and the two sides assented to an April election date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Division of Labor | 11/11/1981 | See Source »

...early '70s, the institute received about $3 million a year. In 1976, it got $16 million, and in 1979, about $20 million. Spokesmen for the institute decline to say how much money they will eventually pour into the laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, but estimates range as high as $50 million a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Hughes' Gift to Harvard | 11/11/1981 | See Source »

...Friday night, the Crimson, now 7-1, snuck by Yale, 18-6, at MIT's Alumni Pool. The swimmers continued to pour it on Saturday morning. UMass went down first, 15-2, followed by a more tenacious MIT, 12-7, and finally Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo Goes 4 for 4, Gears Up for Brown | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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