Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot himself and signaled a climax by thrusting both fists...
Papa finally gave his permission, but to spare him any embarrassment Françoise changed her last name from Quoi-rez to Sagan, after a character in Proust. Tristesse sold 4,500,000 copies around the world and launched her not only as an author but as a peripatetic and hyperbolic prototype of the restless, anarchic youth of Europe. Although her face is triangular and her figure suggests undernourishment, French magazines played her up as if she were Bardot. She played right back, danced all night at a Paris bar called New Jimmy's, raced off in sports cars...
...recent six-day period, she jetted from San Francisco to Toronto to New Orleans to Vienna to Puerto Rico to Vienna to Toronto. In addition, she stops off twice a month to teach at Philadelphia's Musical Academy, where she is chairman of the voice department. In her spare time she embroiders and collects thimbles...
...provincial authorities to remote villages. After testing the British, French and American models that had been painstakingly selected, they discovered that local officials were already operating Japanese Honda motorcycles, which are ideally suited for the slightly built Thais. In addition, many mechanics in rural Thailand already had stocks of spare parts and service facilities for Hondas. Wryly admitting that the work was largely unnecessary, one MRDC researcher reported that at least the work led to an important observation: "We learned that the local people have a good deal of brains...
...stock, his only contact with the downtown Tokyo office is a monthly telephone conversation with Fujisawa, "to decide policy" that usually lasts five minutes. Although they have worked closely together for 19 years, the two executives rarely relax with one another outside the office. Honda likes to spend his spare time golfing, while Fujisawa is an enthusiastic bowler...