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...laid. The East German artisans were not quite starting from the ground up. After the bombardment by British and American warplanes, the building's shell was left standing, and although the interior was badly burned, some original details remained as clues to the materials Semper had used. The acoustics--vivid and unforced, warm and full-bodied--are a particular triumph. The rebuilt Semper Opera disproves the notion that acoustics are still a hit-or-miss proposition: just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended...
...Serena and the dashing Gregg Baker as the villainous Crown. The production, designed and directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular as Douglas W. Schmidt's Radio City triumph. Arthur Mitchell, director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, assisted Merrill with the vivid fights and crowd scenes and staged the dances, underscoring the slice-of-life vigor that is the opera's chief asset...
...included better mileage to boot Similar ecstasy has arrived for any person who cares a wit about baseball in the form of a revised edition of Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. Moreover, the best book ever written about the grand old game also appeals as a vivid depiction of a fascinating slice of American culture...
Psychological studies have proven the mind's power to recreate vividly the five senses in the meditative state, explains men's tennis and squash coach David R. Fish '72, who has used the techniques individually on his players since 1977 and is in the process of expanding both teams' mental training programs. He adds, "The visualization is vivid down to the mouth's cotton taste, or sweaty palms...
...boycott, as it turned out, brightened the mood of the Games, if not necessarily the quality of the competition. The success of the Games was Ueberroth's, and America's, unanswerable reply to the Soviets. The Games drew a vivid implicit contrast between American and Soviet styles--the American Games all light and air and flashing motion (the essence of freedom dramatized), while the Soviets sulked in their totalitarian dusk...