Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allowed himself to be led into Bristol on a horse while women threw garments before him and called him Jesus," Damrosch says...
...reputation has been the exponential growth of "stuff" which they lug around in trailers, necessary to the production of the show. This multiplicity of "stuff" is in sharp contrast to the earliest days of the group, when Goldman and Wink completely streamlined their belongings. "One day we just threw everything out of our apartment.... Every book, every piece of furniture, everything hanging on the walls, everything because we needed to create this vacuum, clean canvas, have this space so that we could create in it. And that was in some regards the first Blue Man and everything since then...
...soon expanded to embrace aristocrats as a matter of theocratic course and extended to intellectuals in the Renaissance. Because composers relied on wealthy patrons to survive, the audience did not change significantly until the late 18th century. Beethoven, full of libertarian ideas and the furor of the French Revolution, threw open the doors of classical music to the middle classes by the boldness of his work and his status as (after several years) the first major patron-less composer. Classical music then underwent a period of mass popularization, including the incorporation of European folk melodies in the works of many...
...year-old son and found hundreds of Muslims waiting in silence. At 11 that evening, buses pulled up, and the Muslims were put on board. Four hours later, they arrived at a clearing where the men were told to get off. Ogresevic pushed her son under the seat and threw her bags over him. The Serbs began beating the men. "They took a group and stood them next to a wall as if they were going to be shot," a sobbing Ogresevic recalled. "They had the families buy their lives back. Eight were marched into a small building and never...
...practitioners, the defection of others to Disney movies, the ignoring of a younger generation's pop-musical tastes. Says Michael Price, executive director of the pacesetting Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut: "In the Golden Age of the musical, what you had was a lot of producers who threw a lot of product up into the air and a couple of shows stuck to the ceiling." Now, musicals are so costly that producers are afraid to fail...