Word: roland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot has to do with the gentle Esclarmonde's efforts to win her elusive beloved, the French knight Roland. Her plans are hampered by geography and a few other cumbersome details: the old Emperor, who abdicated in Esclarmonde's favor, conferred his wizardry powers upon her on condition that she remain veiled to all men until a suitable warrior consort is found...
...certainly Lohengrin's. These similarities would not much matter if the music had independent life. Instead, the score is a shameless pastiche, something that Erich Korngold, the peerless artificer of movie music, would have deeply appreciated. Wagner (including an outright steal of Tristan's theme for Roland), Meyerbeer, Offenbach, all emerge from the pit. The vocal music is lifted mostly from Berlioz, who wrote wonderfully sensuous love duets. The pity is that in Manon, Massenet created an ineffable erotic style...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY HARVARD 4 Tom Hailey SE 90 Larry Hobdy 54 Mike Ryan LT 73 Bruce McKinnon 68 Pat Fitzgibbons LG 67 Mike Clark 77 Joe Castronovo C 53 Larry Spagnola 62 Matt Silverman RG 64 Mike Benninger 73 Dennis Roland RT 71 Nick Radakovich 42 Steve Richards TE 81 Bob McDermott 11 Greg Geiger QB 19 Jim Kubacki 20 Roger Strandberg LH 24 Tommy Winn 27 Bob Rinaldi RH 43 Bob Kinchen 25 Jim O'Connor FB 32 Chris Doherty...
...came within a split second of being the worst. On Monday he carelessly cruised through his morning heat in the 200-meter freestyle and wound up qualifying eighth, a risky .23 sec. away from elimination. That evening, in his long-anticipated 100-meter backstroke confrontation with East German Champion Roland Matthes, Naber stayed frozen to the starting block in what happily turned out to be a false start. At the real start he burst in front with his first three strokes, executed an explosive turn that nearly drowned the judges at poolside, and plunged home to smash Matthes' four...
...swimming events in Montreal, none will attract more attention from the cognoscenti of the sport than the 100-meter backstroke. The defending champion is East Germany's Roland Matthes, 25, an old man among swimming's Wunderkinder who four years ago set the world record mark of 56.30 sec. For Matthes, a skinny (155 lbs.) six-footer, Montreal represents a last chance to add to his stockpile of seven Olympic medals, four of them gold, collected in 1968 and 1972. His challenger is John Naber, five years Matthes'junior, half a foot taller, 40 lbs. heavier...