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...Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version of the score (with spurious arias discarded, and some of Rossini's original instrumentation restored), but has produced a performance totally dedicated to the opera's unceasing wit, sane dramatics and will-o'-the-wisp musical acrobatics...
...midst of an extremely healthy growth period, would probably pick up yet a bit more quickly on the psychological lifting power of a rise in consumer confidence. That in turn might light up Wall Street. The key Dow Jones industrial average after all has jumped following every wisp of a peace rumor for years. Yet strangely last week, when peace seemed closer than ever, the Dow Jones rose less than four points; the most plausible explanation that brokers could offer was that investors had largely discounted a settlement in advance. Brokers remain optimistic, agreeing with Spencer Trask & Co.'s Raymond...
Muon transmissions may point the way to a more dazzling form of communication. The large "zoo" of subatomic particles, as physicists call it, includes an even stranger will-o'-the-wisp called the neutrino: a virtually massless and chargeless bundle of energy. That tiny particle can pass through matter of any thickness, including the entire earth. Furthermore, regardless of how many neutrinos there might be in a beam, they would present no radiation hazard. Thus if a neutrino transmission and detection system could be developed, the elusive particle might prove to be an even better answer...
...woman can even "curtsy and not fall out," he claims. But for women who want to be both bared and bra-ed, complicated problems lie ahead. One possibility is the "three-in-one halter crisscross decollete convertible," which, though it sounds like an automobile, is actually an all-purpose wisp of lingerie...
...Benny Southstreet and Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls. The three veteran horseplayers were searching for that eternally elusive winner in the bible of Belmont and Broadway, The Morning Telegraph. No other publication in the world was so well-informed on such a will-o'-the-wisp subject-the ponies. The Telegraph was the Wall Street Journal of the racing world, and its 30-odd pages crinkled on every railing from Santa Anita to Hialeah...