Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we still have the same sort of question marks," Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "Their [Brown's] weaknesses complemented our weaknesses remarkably. If I had sent down a blueprint, we couldn't have done any better...
...parents fled China in 1949 because her grandfather was a high official in the Kuomintang. "He taught six years at Hartford and then changed his mind and decided Communism was good," she says, "sort of a Confucian thing, like the mandate of Heaven changed. So he returned to China to work for the foreign ministry on U.S.-China and China Taiwan relations...
...unbearable distortion; directors didn't know how to dub singing voices convincingly; the acting of singers showed embarassing flaws under the close scrutiny of the movie camera. Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni is remarkable not because it records a worthy performance--it's rifled with musical problems of evert sort--but because it solves the worst of the artistic problems that have kept opera off the screen. With any luck future directors will be able to use Losey's film as a manual for capturing better performances and interpretations...
...kind of medical help his doctors would insist on. The possibility of putting on trial even a head of state would also, in the long run, be a sound legal policy which could make despotism less attractive and be a means of preventing extreme situations of this sort...
...statue first speaks, dissipates its horrific arrival by treating it almost as a hallucination. Then, in one of his most bizarre touches, a glass blower's open furnace-first seen during the overture-materializes once again in the Don's house and engulfs him, in a sort of industrial accident. Don Giovanni does not exactly go to hell, but the scene does...