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Viewing the orchestra pit had always been a preview to the main show. The smooth screech of a violin tuning up, the shrill whistle of the flute called me to the edge of the stage. I slid between a girl cladin a plaid dress with a big bow at the neck and a young couple dressed in formal wear. The yellowed, dried-out score lay open on the conductor's podium--"Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky" it read in spidery-flowing script...
Last spring Paramount sneaked Fatal Attraction to preview audiences. Their response was positive except for the ending. In that version, Alex committed suicide to the strains of Madame Butterfly and left Dan's fingerprints on the knife, thus framing him as her murderer. Ironic, Hitchcockian, certainly fatalistic and pretty darned Japanese -- but not satisfying. Says Lyne: "It was like having two hours of foreplay and no orgasm...
...invisible figure of a Doonesbury cartoon, failing even to play a behind-the-scenes role in White House meetings. On Thursday, when he finally surfaced to address a campaign rally in Miami, the Vice President found himself trapped by his official role. Denied permission to say anything that would preview the President's press conference, Bush was reduced to banalities. "I still believe the solution is not to go rushing out to raise taxes," he declared, staking out a position that Reagan seemed about to abandon. The next day in Iowa, the Vice President reaped further confusion by reframing...
...Sports Information office is a low-profile but high importance cog in the Harvard athletic system. The office puts together media preview guides for the major Harvard teams, keeps the official statistics of all home athletic events, and generally tries to get Crimson athletes into local and national news...
...scene was rich in symbolism: instruments of authoritarian control put to the torch, while their former wielders cowered in fear. Was it, spectators may have wondered, a preview of South Korea's future? Throughout the country last week, students erupted in a frenzy of defiant marches and demonstrations to protest the six-year rule of President Chun Doo Hwan. Night after night they battled with tens of thousands of police, militia and plainclothes officers, who sought to break up the crowds with judo punches, shields and the virulent pepper gas, whose acrid fumes lingered for hours over the scenes...