Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...
...conference will be difficult, and each side might be tempted simply to give in to the spending desires of the other. A minimum tax could accommodate the Senate's desire to keep up defense spending and the House's interest in maintaining social programs. A major obstacle to this scenario: Reagan's vow that any attempt to raise taxes would prompt a veto and "make...
PICTURE A moonlit patio, the rhythm of soft Jazz, and a lavish dinner ready to be enjoyed. You're about to sit down when your date gives your hand an extra squeeze and wonders aloud. Do you happen to have V.D., herpes or AIDS? This scenario was not lifted from Porky still but instead is the type of warning currently offered by the popular media. According to author Allan M.Brandt Harvard professor of History and Science. such representations simplistic view that the problem can be solved it individuals act more responsibly in their sexual conduct...
...time Things Invisible to See reaches this climatic contest, this scenario is absolutely believable. Nancy Willard has taken her numerous talents--as a poet, an award-winning children's and short-story author, and a baseball fan--and woven a tale so compelling that nothing could be more natural than a game played because one Ben Harkissian has made a bet with Death...
...that the true-life scenario, which reached its climax last week, is too corny to make a movie; nothing is too corny to make a movie. It is rather that the good part is yet to come. A 13-part mini-series might be a more appropriate format to exploit what promises to be one of Hollywood's most interesting sagas, the very real corporate marriage of two of the most flamboyant businessmen in the world...