Word: wagnerism
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...Wimbledon and what they had said (The Queen: "It was a very enjoyable match, but you must have been very hot on the court." Althea: "I hope it wasn't as hot in the royal box.") During a lunch given her by New York City's Mayor [Robert] Wagner at the Waldorf, Althea managed to make a speech. "God grant that I wear this crown I have won with dignity," she said. "I just can't describe the joy in my heart...
...quiver. In a fantastic back-and-forth between the strings’ woodwinds, Yannatos led the orchestra seamlessly between moods, in a progressive build that highlighted the orchestra’s flutes.Perhaps most impressive was the orchestra’s ability to avoid the maudlin bombast typically endemic of Wagner. From the almost minimalist interchange between the orchestra’s components to the gorgeous emotion evident on the performers’ faces during the mountainous crescendos, no musical phrase was left incomplete, and no thought left unfinished. Yannatos and HRO exhibited a striking ability to rein themselves...
...change their messages almost instantaneously," says Sean Reilly, Lamar's president and COO. Reilly plans to put up 200 of those smart boards before the end of the year. "This is truly the next revolution in out-of-home advertising," says Larry Steiner, vice president of development for Van Wagner, which owns the sign running the Absolut campaign...
...most popular and beloved works in publishing history and (sorry, George Lucas) the all-time top-grossing movie trilogy. So producer Kevin Wallace raised about $24 million, from private and Canadian government sources, to mount a 3 1/2-hr. epic--the longest musical this side of Wagner--and the most expensive Broadway-style show ever, though it's at least two years from playing New York City...
...Clean Water Act of 1972, according to Ria Convery, the communications director for the MWRA. The MWRA was specifically created to undertake the court-order cleanup effort, Convery said. The goal is to raise the water quality so that swimming is possible throughout the year, said Michael D. Wagner, assistant enforcement consul for the Environmental Protection Agency of New England, yesterday. “The river is in good shape in dry weather,” Laskey said. “The problem is after or during rainstorms.” Wagner added that the MWRA plans to reduce...