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Ironically, the Crimson (now 5-2) had looked a lot sharper in its only other extra-inning contest of the year--a game it lost to Boston College on Tuesday...
...opera, or his 1983 Macbeth. This unsmiling view of what were once popular entertainments, steeped in a popular idiom, is at odds with the spirit of the composer he professes to serve. And in recasting the sound of the orchestra in line with today's international ideal -- brighter, crisper, sharper -- he has rendered it almost interchangeable with other crack ensembles, such as the Chicago Symphony and the London Symphony...
Choreography never sags, and the dancers form very nice looking tableaus in their cavorting about stage. The timing could be a little sharper, but action is much more important--at least to the public eye. The audience remains hooked because the musical and moving action never stops...
...Timely Beeper, also known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went...
...bailed out of the Italian collection, retrenched and headed off for new territory. He began to bring his clothes into closer conformity with the body, changing the body's lines without constraining them, playing his frisky games with shape and size on a sharper silhouette. There are still occasional doubts. It has only been in the past few years that after a collection showing in Paris, "I haven't felt like calling Tokyo and saying, 'Is the company still there...