Word: samsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performances (the tenor sang only the premiere), leaving Mitwali in debt. The extravaganza was staged over the initial objections of Muslim fundamentalists and Egyptian antiquities officials, who feared the vibrations and crowds might damage the monuments. Still, Domingo says he hopes to return some day to sing Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila. Now that will put the ruins to the test...
...recent months, Tutu's speeches have become more and more fatalistic. Just before becoming archbishop, he told TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, Bruce Nelan, "I think the white ruling class is quite ready to do a Samson on us. That is, they will pull down the pillars, even if it means they perish in the process. They are really scared that we are going to treat them as they treated...
This is a team which beat nationally ranked Virginia and boasts a 17-5 season record, playing in the Samson-like Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). One Blue Devil, freshman Martin Nessley, is a towering 7-ft., 2-in. There of its starters stand 6-ft., 7-in, or above...
...Danny Samson Urbana...
DIED. Edith Head, eightyish, Hollywood costume designer who once described her job as "a cross between camouflage and reconstruction" and who won a record eight Academy Awards (for The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delilah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise...