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...contrast, the prix fixe menu in the statelyupstairs dining room, which includes beeftenderloin and tiramisu, is about double theprice...
...must-see rivalries will pit Richards, 28, against Powers, 18, who is an F.I.S. halfpipe prodigy and has already done much to pump up the competitiveness of the F.I.S. circuit. The outgoing Richards, though he had some difficulty in the first Grand Prix event, came on to win the second stop at Mount Bachelor with a fluid technical style rooted in his first passion, skateboarding. Powers, one of the more disciplined and reserved riders on the tour, has exploded into the top rankings this winter with several convincing wins. Even without Haakonsen, the U.S. will have its hands full holding...
...radio systems. Under the new purchasing program, for example, instead of buying 123 different steering columns, GM will stock 50. The company can still produce totally different cars. For instance, by using styling feats, suspension adjustments and electronic legerdemain, GM can produce a crouched and hunkered-down Pontiac Grand Prix or a Buick Century, which is a model of civic probity, from the same platforms...
...Mort d'Orphee, though composed in the same year as the Waverly, has a distinctly different tone. Berlioz wrote it for the Prix de Rome, the most prestigious composers' competition in Paris, but the judges deemed it too daring. This work tells the tale of Orpheus' death in three movements. The first is a sorrowful tenor melody in which Orpheus laments for his lost Eurydice. The second depicts the wrath of Bacchus' priestesses, who tear Orpheus to pieces when he rejects their love. Both a tenor and a women's choir are required for this movement, but this seems almost...
...world of competitive ballroom dancing. Perversely festooned women and frighteningly suntanned men duke it out in this battle of the shallowest, as our hero, the homely Fran, tries to win the heart of a pretty-boy rebel who wants to bring his daring pasa doble to the Australian Grand Prix...