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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...masterly touches, as in a ballroom scene in Act 1 in which Bothwell (sung by Barry Busse) and his soldiers watch awkwardly as Mary (Ashley Putnam) and her courtiers dance stately pavanes. Infuriated by the perfumed elegance, Bothwell strides forward and belts forth a rough Scottish reel. The roistering tune and sinister tremolo accompaniment overwhelm the lutelike Renaissance melody of the dance-and the musical battle foreshadows real ones to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Queen Mary in Virginia | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

What makes Holocaust particularly fascinating is that it is an orthodox product of network television. The creation of veteran TV showmen, it is splintered by commercial breaks and loaded with soap-opera plot devices designed to make the audience tune in each night. Yet Holocaust demonstrates that TV's built-in limitations can become assets: they can make difficult material more accessible to a mass audience. It is hard to imagine Holocaust being so effective in another format. Were the show exhibited in movie theaters, no one would sit still for its 9½-hour running time. Were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reliving the Nazi Nightmare | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...when you hear his sacred tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Better and for Worse | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...heavyweights, the Terrier race is an important tune-up for meetings with powerhouses Princeton and Yale later this month, in a season that points toward the Eastern spring championship at Pittsfield, Mass., May 14 (for the lightweight story, see below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Crews Open Season Against B.U. | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...game to jack up the stats," a member of Harvard's lacrosse team said before last night's contest against Mass. Maritime under the lights at B.C. The end result proved far more one-sided than anyone had expected, as the Crimson jacked up the stats to the tune of a 27-2 romp over the hapless Tritons, behind Steve Martin's record-tying 11-point scoring barrage...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Laxmen Skewer Tritons, 27-2 | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

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