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...Some say it looks like a warehouse or a garage. If it is the garage and the Fogg is the house, then they need to be connected," adds Levine, "I personally think the exterior looks fine, but the interior is much the more splendid part...
...night devoted to singing, and the cast, conducted by the company's music director, James Levine, was a rich international assemblage that included the splendid Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the gentle maiden Elsa, the fiery Hungarian soprano Eva Marton as the scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid...
...splendid play of Husky goalie Terry Kix, who notched her fifth shutout of the year, also averted any Harvard hopes...
Horner said in a prepared statement that the grant will aid Radcliffe in "the encouragement of women scholars and the study of women's lives and their contributions to society," two of the goals of Radcliffe College. Calling the grant a "splendid gift," she added that it will help Radcliffe "extend our scholarly perspective across national boundaries and our knowledge and understanding beyond the traditional constraints of our disciplines...
...consequences of this sportive invasion are both visible and dispiriting. The main route up the Matterhorn has been worn as smooth as a dance floor by climbers and is currently closed to all but advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists...