Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gockley, Houston Grand Opera, which is internationally renowned for its avant-garde productions, had come to be seen by its hometown as elitist. "The political and funding community," he says, "was telling us, 'We know you have a certain stature, but if you don't begin to reach and touch more people, you're going to gradually drop off our priority list.'" So he asked Billington and Foy to create a fully portable stage suitable for special performances aimed at young, TV-oriented viewers unfamiliar with opera. "What does rock 'n' roll do? That was our mandate," Billington explains...
First of all, Cambridge is not your average urban sprawl. Green, shady oases like Harvard Yard, Radcliffe Yard, JFK. Park at the Kennedy School and the Cambridge Common (only during daylight hours) offer plenty of space for frisbee games, touch-football and soccer...
Summer has advantages that frigid January just can't touch, like the ability to walk, jog or rollerblade Memorial Drive. On Sundays, Memorial Drive is closed to traffic, but a paved path along the river is good enough the rest of the week...
...movie on the summer landscape. As Lucia says, "This is how we do things on the planet Maturia. We have much to teach you." Today's lesson: pay fond attention to these seven characters, who finally realize they are in search of one another. Somehow they will teach and touch...
...wife of Koert VanderVoort, vice president of sales for Quest International, which launched Tommy Girl, a major fragrance that lost the top FiFi to Chanel's Allure at last year's awards. "They worked for seven months on this. They flew guys in from France on the Concorde to touch up the top notes. He went skydiving for Hilfiger Athletics. He jumped off a f___ing plane." Amid his wife's rant, Koert looks uncomfortably down into his drink. "You're going to make me cry," he says...