Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after year to assay the hopeless task of performing major operas in dining halls with hastily convoked orchestras, and I suppose the answer lies in the greatness of the works themselves. But next time perhaps a different approach to undergraduate opera is in order. Some enterprising director ought to yoke together several of the valuable resources available here to amateurs, like the Loeb mainstage and one of the two organized undergraduate orchestras, and have a go at producing an opera with forces suitable to the task...
...dominant. Visiting the dying composer in New York one day, Dorati recalls finding him engrossed in a copy of Edward Grieg's Piano Concerto. Asked why he was studying such a romantic score, BartÓk said that Grieg was important because he had "cast off the German yoke...
Kenneth Kaunda, the president of the Republic of Zambia, once held steadfastly to this belief; in fact, he helped free his colony from the English yoke through non-violent means in the '50s and '60s. A devout Christian--his father was a preacher--committed to non-violence, but also a leader of his people and sworn to ameliorate their welfare, he did not know how he should lead. Thus he found "satyagrah," the creative use of non-violent resistance as a strategy for change, "a life belt thrust into the hand of a drowning men." It worked in Zambia...
...published a ghoulish Page One picture of Lennon taken at the city morgue after his death, dubbing the shot "historic." The National Enquirer printed the photo in color. Us magazine raised its newsstand price to $2.50 from 75? for a special Lennon edition, with an "exclusive" of "John and Yoke's last photo session." It was not; the last was Rolling Stone's, conducted hours before the shooting. A startling picture from that session, showing a nude Lennon embracing a fully clothed Yoko, was used as the cover of Rolling Stone's 1.8 million-copy Lennon memorial...
Thankfully (at times regretfully) Godard's cast does not seem to bridle at his yoke as much as we do. Huppert plays Isabelle, a relaxed if busy prostitute, capable enough to teach the trade to her sister-for money. She picks out Paul Godard (the mocking association is reinforced by his mogulstatus at a television station) and coaxes him away from a cinema line...