Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller nuclear devices are generally exploded on steel towers inside a ring of screening mountains north of Las Vegas. The towers are vaporized by the heat, and the atomic fireball, touching the ground for an instant, drags up toward the stratosphere a large amount of radioactive dust. Both the dust and the vaporized steel must fall to earth somewhere, and the piercing outcry from places where they have fallen has made the AEC jumpy...
...staging department, the present Ring is freighted with virtually the same visual improbabilities that burdened it in the past. Ponderous gods and goddesses lumbered clumsily toward one another across the gigantic stage. Papier-mâché dragons belched steam, dwarfs disappeared in clouds of vapor, magic fires raced across the sky at the wave of a wand. For reasons of economy, the Met made no effort to replace the worn sets originally designed and constructed for the Ring nearly a decade ago. A complete restaging, estimates Manager Bing, would cost a prohibitive $300,000. Though he refuses...
...Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing is a fastidious Viennese who has little use for the Teutonic excesses of Richard Wagner. But this season he bravely buckled down to putting on Wagner's complete 15-hour Ring cycle (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) for the first time in six years. Somewhat to Bing's surprise, it was a smash hit. The Wagner-starved public queued up for tickets: "It was as if Callas were singing Lucia''' Result: the Met decided to follow up the two scheduled Rings with...
Same Old Dragons. All that the Ring has lacked at the Met, according to Wagner fans, has been heroic-voiced singers to fill its gargantuan roles. But the present Ring succeeded with sporadically fine singing and occasional bursts of orchestral brilliance. For the occasion, Bing imported Bayreuth's Martha Moedl (as Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (as Siegmund and Siegfried), and Marianne Schech of the Munich Staatsoper (as Sieglinde and Gutrune). All three gave occasionally fine performances, but no one of them dominated the stage in the spacious manner of a Kirsten Flagstad, a Helen Traubel or a Lauritz...
Working together at Harvard, the three scientists shot an enormous current for a few millionths of a second through their copper ring. Inside the ring the magnetism jumped to the unheard-of level of 1,600,000 gauss.* Pressure rose above 1,000,000 lbs. per sq. in., and the metal churned and writhed as the magnetism clawed into it. Such pressure and violent motion may have some bearing on nuclear fusion, and this may be why Furth is now working at the famous hydrogen-bomb laboratory at Livermore, Calif...