Word: sailings
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...invasion of Western Europe. His own duty was done for the day. He went down to a pier in Portsmouth to watch British soldiers board their landing craft. The biggest fleet in history -- 59 convoys strung over 100 miles, led by six battleships, 22 cruisers and 93 destroyers -- set sail toward the beaches of Normandy between 60 and 100 miles away...
...come to pay homage in Europe this week, to remember a great battle in a good cause. Bill Clinton, who begins an eight-day visit, will meet the leaders of the other Allied nations who share credit for the victory and dine with Queen Elizabeth II in Portsmouth, then sail on an aircraft carrier for a sunrise ceremony off the Normandy coast on June 6. Some may question his credibility as Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces because he avoided military service during the Vietnam War. But if past anniversaries of the invasion are any indication, the emotion...
...from London climaxes with an astonishing tableau. After wreaking the most comprehensive revenge that a scorned wife has ever devised -- slaying her cheating husband's royal fiance and soon-to-be father-in-law, then slaughtering her sons so her husband's bloodline will die with him -- Medea sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently already at sea. Hunched during her period of rage and oppression, she stands proud as a ship's figurehead, clouds streaming...
...though, the European invaders have been exonerated as the carriers of at least one disease to the New World. Scientists said last week that they had found DNA from the TB bacterium in the mummified remains of a woman who died in the Americas 500 years before Columbus set sail from Spain...
Unlike the increasingly popular Enya, who has not yet worked out how to perform without being surrounded by tape recorders (she tracks each song hundreds of times to get the sound of "Sail Away" and the like), McLachlan's more acoustic better adapted to the stage. She tours regularly, and will be coming to the Somerville Theater March 28, and while the Monday after spring break may not be a time when most of us will be thinking about attending concerts, the album itself merits a listen. With Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Sarah McLachlan broods and croons her way towards well...