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Word: wanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...markedly," says Hall. But the Ring, one of the most ambitious artistic engineering projects in history, needs strong, consistent guidance if a production is not to degenerate into a series of pretty stage pictures. Characters must be sharply focused, their complex relationships made clear. They cannot be allowed to wander aimlessly across the stage, as Hall lets them do in Rheingold, or strike arbitrary, stylized postures: Wotan singing to Brünnhilde while lying flat on his back in Die Walküre, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Warm Days for Wagner Knights | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...Rome, sees the emergence of a "new kind of American in Europe." He explains, "Today's tourists have more interests and a different cultural background from the elderly, usually wealthy client who in past years wanted everything organized down to the last, tiniest detail. They like to wander and find out things on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Everywhere | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

Oxford Ale House (36 Church St) Reputedly the toughest bar in the Square, although do wander in from time to time for the music and dancing, which is good and inexpensive. The Ale House is a good place to hear fledgling Square bands for a cut-rate price, especially on the weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Before the Drinks . . . After the Show | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

...these spanking late night book fixes smack of quiche eating and for true mustiness you'll have to wander into one of Cambridge's more eclectic bookstores The True Grit Award goes to the Bookcase and the Starr Book Shop (in the shadow of the crane at the corner of Plympton and Mt Auburn Sts) whose stacks of dusty old books will keep you entranced (and perhaps sneezing) for hours. More pristine but not less interesting is the scholarly Pangloss Bookshop on Mass Ave. a haven for would be academics brimming over with learned tomes and obscure journals All three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking for Mr. Goodbook | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

...simply a matter of flying to Las Vegas. In all the Vegas casinos but one, bets are strictly limited. Limit poker requires knowing the odds, playing tightly and chiseling away at whatever optimists wander into the game. In no-limit, as one poker carnivore tells Alvarez, "the target comes alive and shoots back at you." Shooting back, in one legendary five-month game years ago between Johnny Moss and Nick the Greek, came down to a five-card stud hand in which Moss, with a pair of nines, thought he had the Greek locked. Moss figured his opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freeze-Out | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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