Word: redo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paris a couple of years later to study with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours a day. To help make ends meet, he worked as an extra in films for a daily wage of 75 francs, or about...
Sure, Witch and Famous suffers from Puddingitis--incurable length--and lacks any truly show shopping numbers. But since the numbers are uniformly quite good, the show never seriously falters. Alexis Position is the one real standout as the snippity angel who makes her entrance in enough gold lame to redo the State House dome, and who secretly longs to have. "The Devil in Me." Strong performances as well come from Anita Mann and Lou Suffer, proving once again that evil is easier to imitate than is virtue...
...administration, eager to cover itself as the Presidential election draws near, has tried to explain away the terrorist success, shrugging its shoulders and blaming the Carter administration, even comparing the delays in security construction to problems people have when they redo their kitchens. Only infilitration of terrorist sects can stop their attacks, Reagan said, and suggested two days ago that the real fault lies with "the near destruction of our intelligence capability" in the years before his administration...
...necessary to redo the building to attract the best type of people," said Robert M Woollacott, chairman...
...early Twentieth Century. Nor should we expose our monuments, in humorist Walt Kelly's words, to anything like the Parisian School of underground poster artists and their credo of "Vive le moustache" or the alterationist defacers of New York's Subway School who have taken it upon themselves to redo Grant's Tomb, for example, with all the skill of "a messy monkey armed with a melting chocolate...