Word: score
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country has long been on a collision course with anarchy. Since January, at least 600 people have died in clashes between El Salvador's military government, left-wing terrorists and murder squads directed by the country's ultra-reactionary oligarchy. Marxist guerrillas have kidnaped a score of foreign businessmen, extorting at least $40 million in ransoms. The kidnapings sparked a flight of foreign capital that further weakened the tottering economy of one of the hemisphere's more densely populated nations (531 people per sq. mi.). Presiding over the chaos was General Carlos Humberto Romero, 57, an inept...
Even his powerful reorchestration of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov was meant to dramatize the opera's message that an "antipeople government" is "inevitably" a criminal government. The composer believes that the score makes the point even more clearly than the Alexander Pushkin play on which the libretto is based. "For me, the abstract art-music-is more effective," he says...
Shostakovich wrote the score for the superb Soviet film of Hamlet. It was one of his favorite plays, and there was a line of Hamlet's he particularly liked: "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon...
Though the Crimson failed to score on the opening drive, Harvard showed early how it would later dominate the game by thinking up complicated plays in split seconds and using its skills and hustle to execute them...
...first half. Tiger fullback Scott Messel leapt into the air to try and clear a corner kick with his head, only to have the ball deflect off his airborne right leg into the corner of his own goal. The referee credited Harvard's Mike Mogollan with the score...