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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...