Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernstein conducting and Gentele himself directing. Bing also spent a probable $700,000 on his swan song, last March's new and spectacularly good production (by Franco Zeffirelli) of Verdi's Otello, when the nine-year-old and commensurately splendid Eugene Berman production was in perfectly good shape. That indulgence (including 100 costly costumes that were never used) will not help Gentele at all in the current labor negotiations he must settle by this summer if the Met is to open...
...response to the present crisis, the eight Ivy League newspapers join in calling for a one-day moratorium on business as usual Friday. We urge our presidents to suspend university activities on that day, and we encourage all students and faculty to help shape further actions at general campus meetings...
...number one for the Crimson, sophomore Harris Masterson has been off his game. "He's had trouble getting in top shape and he hasn't played consistently," Barnaby said. "He's going to have a very tough match with Powers...
John Allyn, president of the Chicago White Sox, for one, permitted his striking players to practice at their home field. In some cities, youngsters were treated to rare closeups of their favorite stars trying to keep in shape on public parks and school diamonds. It was like the bush leagues. In Los Angeles, a group of wide-eyed boys turned their playground over to Frank Robinson, Maury Wills and other Dodgers. The big-leaguers went through a vigorous workout, using an overturned picnic table as a screen. In Atlanta, another bunch of kids joyfully shagged balls for Home Run Hero...
...Piranesi did Rome. Generations of builders, from the anonymous creators of the Forum to Michelangelo and Bernini, set down that tawny palimpsest on the Tiber. It was left to a failed 18th century architect, who built one long-ignored church on the Aventine, to give the city its definitive shape: the word Piranesian, as a synonym for phantasmagoric grandeur, has entered the language of art. This month, a splendid exhibition of Piranesi's studies and engravings opened at Columbia University in Manhattan; its centerpiece is a set of 23 wash drawings for Piranesi's intended remodeling...