Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German romantic traditions. It would also include Debussy's Petteas et Melisande, the French composer's 1902 masterpiece of Gallic allusion and understatement; Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, the most important work to enter the international repertory since World War II; and Alban Berg's twin monuments - Wozzeck, the seminal opera of our time, and Lulu, the apotheosis of the twelve-tone system...
...Twin Disasters...
...feels glum over the prospect of another abortion, her sixth. She would like to have the baby and marry Diego, her Cuban lover, but doing so would cause her father to revoke the TWA pass that she uses to jet wherever her spirit moves her. Kirk, Jeffrey's twin brother, is taking parachute lessons in preparation for a photojournalistic assignment in Antarctica. The world, apparently, is ready to go to war over the natural resources under the South Pole...
Gould has managed to slide between the twin dangers of, on one hand, limiting his audience merely to the specialists in his field, and on the other, losing his scholarly respectability by pandering to a low common denominator. He has done this, friends say, by making a conscious effort to reach out from his work--and by not taking everything entirely seriously. His lecture on the evolution of Mickey Mouse is almost a legend for its integration of the fanciful and the scientific. Likewise, the title of his popular undergraduate course injects a welcome note of tongue-in-cheek into...
...purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass., built a medieval French walled city. But not even the most formidable sculptures could long resist those twin nemeses, wind and tide...