Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (5 LPs; London). Following close upon last year's triumphant Gotterdammerung, London completes its new recordings of the complete Ring cycle with a wonderful Walkure. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti again heaps high all the sumptuous glories of the Wagnerian orchestra, at the same time charging every passage of Wotan's family fracas with drama. The lush and beautiful singing is alive with emotion, the stars being an international assemblage of accomplished artists: Birgit Nilsson as Briinnhilde, Regine Crespin as Sieglinde, Christa Ludwig as Fricka, and Hans Hotter as Wotan. Not quite so great...
Watertown may be the only place in the world with musical traffic lights. When the red and yellow lights signal "walk," a bell begins to ring, and blind people cross the street like everyone else...
...wonder was the punch. Cleveland Williams can't even remember what happened during the last 4 min. of the 7 min. 8 sec. that he was in the ring with Clay. And it's a good thing he can't. In the first round, Cassius contented himself with giving the Cat a dancing lesson and a nosebleed. Then, when the bell rang for Round 2, Trainer Dundee ordered: "Go after him. Use a chopping right." Clay's first chopping right dropped Williams for a count of two; his second caught the Cat flush on the mouth...
...Williams, the fight marked the end of the road; face bruised, one eye puffed nearly shut, five stitches in his cut lip, he announced that he was quitting the ring. He is leaving it the same way he found it-penniless. His share of the purse and ancillary rights may total $160,000, but cuts, taxes, and debts will probably take...
...each group. In a process called "chinning," he brushes his chin over twigs and stones on land that he claims; a gland in his chin deposits a distinctive scent that makes his own group feel at home but warns away outsiders. By simulating these scents, the Australians hope to ring pasture lands with odors that will keep marauding rabbits out. False chin trails may lead the unsuspecting animals directly to poisoned bait...