Word: seal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA Red Seal). From his daringly slow opening statement of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, and throughout this recital of challenging works by Liszt, Chopin and Prokofiev, the Soviet prodigy, now 19, shows a potential for future greatness, with a command of tone, dynamics and phrasing that is always at the service of musical ends...
Scarcely had the meeting begun in the Salon des Nations conference room of Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel when U.S. Secretary of State James Baker handed Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz a brown manila envelope stamped with the presidential seal. Inside was a letter from George Bush warning Saddam Hussein to get out of Kuwait by Jan. 15 -- six days hence -- or face the certainty that the 28-nation coalition would force him out. Aziz, fluent in English, carefully looked over a photocopy that had been provided for him. When he finished, the Iraqi lowered his heavy black-frame glasses...
...championship would have been a fitting way to end the James era. If an Ivy title wasn't possible, then maybe just one more vintage James performance would have done. Maybe a buzzer-beating three-pointer. Maybe a clutch defensive stand or a rebound that would seal one more Crimson victory...
...that an offshore menace is worthy of protection will not be easy. Though one is more likely to be trampled to death by an elephant or gobbled up by a crocodile, sharks do kill about 25 people a year worldwide -- usually because they have mistaken a human for a seal or some other favorite prey...
...considered good at such fighting, and, more important, they would be doing it without vital air cover. Frontal attacks, where they occurred, would be preceded by heavy aerial bombardment and would be aimed at piercing holes in the lines, which the Iraqis would have to try to seal off by counterattack. That would require them to come out into the open and expose themselves to pitiless bombing and strafing...