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Human Ghosts. All the backstage sergeants have their favorite nightmares. Merrill's personal fear is that the five schooners that must tilt and collapse when a wind machine blows at the beginning of the opera will jam some night and halt the entire production. Another perilous moment occurs in the Royal Hunt and Storm scene in the second act. Four human ghosts must descend from 60 feet in the air into the audience's vision, while the giant turntable is about to spin forward, all without disclosing the projection equipment. Any electrical trouble then would end the evening...
...concession stand stopped selling the tasty taters after the first intermission. Well, maybe next year. But don't count on it. It's too bad the Harvard-Yale tilt isn't in the Arena this year. On second thought, I take that back. I'd rather see the Ivy League crown won right here in Watson Rink...
After a first half 35-35 tie, the opening three minutes of the second stanza were characterized by the same back-and-forth action of the first half. But at 16:36, Needleman, running full tilt, took a pass from junior guard Steve Selinger and canned an unmolested fast-break layup. Ken Wolfe followed with another layup; Jenkins added a jumper and the Crimson owned a lead they would never relinquish...
...December 1971, Columnist Jack Anderson obtained documents that quoted Kissinger as telling his staff that Nixon wanted the U.S. to "tilt" toward Pakistan during its war with India. Infuriated, Kissinger demanded a White House investigation of the leak...
...highest echelons of CBS, Columbia's parent organization, as a senior vice president. Now back in his old territory, he was somewhat appalled. If the record business had finally nosed past the movies as the biggest entertainment medium in the U.S., it had also begun to tilt dangerously out of control. "I came back," says Lieberson, "because I didn't want to see something I'd been building for 25 years go down the drain...