Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern orchestrational device of flutter-tonguing for flutes and brass is complemented by traditionally virtuosic writing for the solo violinist. Gubaidulina, 53, also evokes her Russian predecessors Stravinsky and Prokofiev, most strikingly in a passage of glissandi string harmonics that recalls The Firebird. By Western standards, Offertorium may be tame, but given the governmental restrictions on the stylistic range of Soviet music, it shows Gubaidulina to be a fresh, challenging voice in her country...
...THOUGHTFUT and farsighted voter, nothing could have been more chilling than the prospect of Ronald Reagan casting the next Supreme Court. Somehow though, this far-reaching concern got lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues...
...tame, but it is also a trail blazer. In a new television commercial that went on the air last week in Dallas and Los Angeles, a series of black-and-white scenes depicts changes in women's lifestyles, from fashions to careers, during the past quarter-century. As the screen switches to color, a young professional woman is seen at work. A voice-over notes that for all the progress during those years, choices in female birth control had changed little "until Today." Introduced last year by VLI (third-quarter sales: $2.76 million), Today is the disposable contraceptive sponge...
...University of Massachusetts squad a week and a half ago, and after a 6-0 shellacking of the University of Rhode Island just last week--a victory that saw the Harvard club score more goals in one game than any Crimson team since 1977--the Cantabs seemed primed to tame the Tigers...
...like the love she sings of earlier, Carmen is a "rebellious bird/That you can never hope to tame" and before long the lovers quarrel. Suddenly, Escamillio, the matador, appears. Escamillio also has fallen madly in love with the enchantress since meeting her before her flight from Seville. He challenges Don Jose to yield Carmen but Don Jose, determined to hold onto the last strands of his dignity, refuses. Only when faced with the news that his mother is dying back home does Don Jose leave the smugglers. But all the while he vows to come back and reclaim Carmen...