Word: soggyness
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After six weeks of darting around in the dusty gloom of Briggs Cage, three score and ten assorted baseball and lacrosse players surged out onto soggy Soldiers Field yesterday and threw the ball around.
"Beefy Wagnerian gods . . . snorted and bellowed"; "the Met's soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm"; ". . . stable of posturing actors-make opera more gross than grand"; and to be final, "the stylizing makes more for convenience than conviction" [TIME, Feb. 16].
The engineers' remedy: stop the well digging and dig a tunnel through the mountains to bring water from Toluca's Lerma River for the soggy but thirsty capital.
Punch & Power. Peter Grimes is more than a new opera; for the Met it is a new kind of opera. Dissonance has been heard in the Met's hallowed halls before-in Strauss's Elektra and Salome. Bernard Rogers' The Warrior, which was flashed on & off last...
The storm was ill-timed for exam harried students. Bounced, soggy posteriors and benumbed fingers found little succor in the hard seated exam halls. As one dazed undergraduate, whose name is withheld because he couldn't remember it, so succinctly summed it up. "We was got by the ice."