Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abbado's conducting was a deft blend of energy, delicacy and a Toscanini-like instinct for the dramatic jugular. Even better, perhaps, was his mercurial handling two nights later of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). This work is chamber music for the opera house and easily the high point of the composer's comic style. Abbado has that style in his bones...
...hillsides of Maryland's hunt country, Goucher College has long been an exclusive school for women. This summer, however, it has been the training-camp home of the National Football League's most aggressive social climbers, the Baltimore Colts. Last season the Colts were football's Cinderella, bouncing from two wins and twelve losses in 1974 to the championship of the American Football Conference's Eastern Division and a spot in the 1975 playoffs. They were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first playoff round, but this year the Colts hope to stay...
...quick succession by other tough games with Dallas and Miami. But football's canniest handicappers are boldly putting their money on the Colts: Baltimore, which never saw the light of the tube last year until the playoffs, is scheduled for five nationally televised games this season. As befits Cinderella...
...snowballing unity wasn't something that Carter's efficiency experts decided to manufacture. Nevertheless, ten seconds of every minute on the floor was spent gazing at the clock above the NBC booth. And it is difficult to tell Pennsylvania's governor that you must excuse yourself because you have Cinderella status...
Once upon a quite recent time, the staid insurance industry had a Cinderella firm called Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO). By charging low premium rates, GEICO skipped past older firms to become the fifth largest auto insurer in the land. Investors from far and wide flocked to buy a piece of GEICO, bidding its stock up to more than $60 a share. Then Cinderella turned into a pumpkin...