Word: richter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beyond recognition, Stokowski mauled A Night on Bald Mountain, and now Tomita has repainted Pictures. It is a marvel that the original music has the strength to stand up to this kind of dilution, like a good Scotch to soda. Tomita's Pictures is no threat to Sviatoslav Richter's classic version of Mussorgsky's piano original, or the Toscanini interpretation of the expert Ravel orchestration. What Tomita does is pop art pure and simple. It is benevolent caricature, a funny-paper treatment of the classics for those who get nervous at the real thing...
...crew is out to demolish the Crimson's national championship standing and, as captain Blair Brooks put it, "the big bad guys from the East." But if the desire for vengeance could shake the earth, three crews which Harvard will face on April 5th would rate highest on the Richter scale...
...seismographs all over the world recorded a major earthquake centered in densely populated Mukden, an industrial area of northeastern China. The temblor measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, severe enough to have caused extensive casualties and property damage...
...Komics" frequent the Ritz Baths, a gay rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...
...discussion of our ticket manager Gordon Page in your supplement article on January 15 might lead some the Harvard community to misconceptions concerning his performance of football ticket distribution and I'd like to set the record straight. Gordon has a rating of 10 on the Richter Scale of integrity and has made many friends during his years of service. Many of these friends do present him with "holiday gifts," but it has nothing to do with any person getting preferential treatment to any Harvard athletic contest and Gordon would be personally insulted if anyone attempted to buy him. Because...