Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East Specialist Howard Teicher and George Cave, former CIA deputy station chief in Tehran, flew to Iran. As soon as he arrived in Tehran, McFarlane phoned Washington and learned that no hostages had been released. Things went downhill from there. During three days of talks the American quartet met only officials who appeared to have little constituency or influence. McFarlane returned to the U.S., made a negative report to the NSC and once more believed the Iranian connection was broken. At about the same time, Shultz has said, Casey and Poindexter told him the operation had been "stood down...
Nine letter-winners overall return, and the quartet of returning starters includes star point guard Barbarann Keffer...
...disputed love affair with the Duchess of Alba (Mezzo-Soprano Victoria Vergara), concluding with a gratuitous mad scene, replete with writhing spirits and fun-house demons? Of a score whose one striking musical device, an insistent, high-pitched whine signifying Goya's deafness, is borrowed from Smetana's string quartet From My Life...
Same Time Last Year: The Crimson has gotten off to a faster start in 1986 than last year's NCAA runners-up Harvard squad. After four games last season, against the same quartet of opponents of Brown, Yale, Princeton and Army, Harvard was only 3-1. The team had scored 22 goals and allowed...
...surprising that at the twilight of his life, this introspective artist should imagine the last flash of the last night of everybody's life -- the end of the world -- on film. The Sacrifice comprises 24 hours in the lives of eight people at a secluded summer house. The upstairs quartet is Alexander (Josephson), a former actor who now teaches aesthetics; his English wife (Susan Fleetwood); a grown daughter (Filippa Franzen); and an adored son called Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist). In various levels of the servant class are two maids, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir); Victor (Sven Wollter...