Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unless he makes a rare blunder, he has no competition-but as a difficult performance, to be done in order to give the greatest pleasure possible. He prefers outdoor meets, like the one last week at the Olympics, "because of the blue sky." Of course: the sky is a splendid stage setting...
...hurtles downhill from there toward outright insolence. Did Abraham Lincoln really say in 1859, "Negro equality! Fudge! How long . . . shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to quip, so low a piece of demagogism as this"? Did the U.S. Labor Department truly announce that 1930 would be "a splendid employment year...
...Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 3 CDs). Karajan's earlier Carmen, with Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli, was a full-throated spectacular in the grand-opera tradition. This one, 19 years later, reflects his current preference for smaller voices in an almost chamber-like setting. Baltsa, a splendid Greek mezzo, who is not heard often enough on this side of the Atlantic, makes a sultry cigarette girl, and Spanish Tenor Carreras an ardent Don José. The intimate nature of the tragedy is enhanced by the use of spoken dialogue, which Bizet intended...
...Takht, the second-holiest place the complex, where much of the fighting took place, was devastated beyond recognition. One floor was ankle-deep in spent shells, empty cartridges and machine-gun clips; balconies had been showered with splintered glass; walls black with smoke; once delicate or namental writing and splendid furniture were gone. An army officer said 50 soldiers and Sikhs had been killed and 200 wounded in the storming of the building...
...forbidding its splendid team of athletes to participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the Soviet Union is damaging the only appealing aspect of its image as perceived by a majority of people on this side of the Iron Curtain. It is a vengeful and unsporting act. On the other hand, nobody is indispensable. I am ready to bet that there are plenty of athletes who are secretly rubbing their hands at the prospect of reaping a medal where before they had no chance...