Word: strausses
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Against the Minutemen the Crimson started off slowly. Owning only a 4-3 lead at the end of the first quarter, Harvard rallied behind sophomore Rob Strauss, who pumped in seven goals to blow out UMass in the final three periods...
...athletes. After a public vote, or at least a poll of department-store shoppers, the U.S. Olympic Committee elected last week to introduce the 1984 team in sweats and visors, baggy but bright. Some 700 athletes and coaches will be supplied 35 mix-and-match garments by Levi Strauss & Co. The warmup suits, titled the "active" ensemble, won out over the "classic" (white slacks or skirts with red blazers) and the "Western" (more cowboy suits). The "active" drew about half of the 2 million votes...
...This Man and Music, Burgess sets out to see what his two arts have to say to each other. Music, of course, does not "say" anything; its content is tension and release. It communicates, but mysteriously, as "a semiotic organization." When the symphonic tone poems of Berlioz and Strauss try to incorporate narrative and character, the novelist in Burgess protests...
...stage for the benefit of those in the audience who might not grasp every nuance of archaic Mandarin. Sills resolved to take a cue from what she witnessed. The idea was reinforced when the Canadian Opera in Toronto pioneered the use of English captions in its productions of Richard Strauss's Elektra and Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea...
...dancers clad in black, red or white pajamas, their costumes slit wide to flash inner forearms and thighs. Slowly they start to spin, hop and shuffle in smooth synchronicity. Out of huge loudspeakers suspended from the ceiling comes the foghorn blast of a low note-like the opening of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra-played by a synthesizer; later the music rises in a blast of brass to a Brucknerian apotheosis...