Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth...
...ancient Vietnamese proverb, quoted by Deputy Foreign Minister Vo Dong Giang last week during a visit to Bangkok, had an odd ring. Viet Nam was courting its former enemies and criticizing its former comrades...
...Second Ring of Power, Castaneda
...wolves at bay." He seems accommodating, but not until the next day are we assured that it will be possible to cross into Burma in the company of a courier of the Karenni forces. The courier, when he appears, is smiling. On his left hand, set in a ring of soft orange gold, is a large, smooth, deep-green stone of jade...
Richard Wagner has not been particularly well served at the Metropolitan Opera in recent seasons. One reason, to give the Met the benefit of the doubt, is that neither Tristan und Isolde nor the Ring cycle makes much sense without Heldensoprano Birgit Nilsson, who has been away from the U.S. for several seasons and gives no sign of returning. Last week the Met considerably shored up its Wagnerian wing with a new production of Tannhäuser that was spectacular to behold, breathtaking (with one major exception) to hear and immensely satisfying in the way it made dramatic sense...