Word: shields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different vein, Charlotte Kaufman directs "The Poor Soldier," an Irish ballad opera by William Shield and John O'Keeffe, Dublin, 1783, at Tapestry Hall, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at 3:30 pm on Sunday. The performance is free and details are available at 267-9300, ext. 340. At Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boyleston Street, Boston, Marla Prince leads a vocal ensemble tonight at 7:30 pm. Info about the free concert is at 266-1400. Also, at the University, sopranos Marguerite Coughlin and Sabra Loomis and pianist Alvin Novak perform works of Liszt, Wolf, Schumann and Berg. The free...
...Peter's Square, despite the virtual certainty of rain, so as not to disappoint the more than 50,000 people who, rain or shine, desired to attend. At one point during the Requiem, a downpour drenched the solitary coffin, and aides rushed up with umbrellas to shield the 90 white-mitered Cardinals...
Unreasonable exchange rates, which now mean a cup of coffee costing $2 in Geneva or a hotel room $100 a night in Tokyo, increase the danger of protectionist trade wars as everyone runs to shield his market against low-priced U.S. competition. The Tokyo Round of trade talks, which has been dragging on for four years, is in danger largely because of the dollar. Finally, global inflation is being fired anew. Uncertain what the value of a product will be even a few weeks from now, both exporters and importers raise prices a little more to ensure against a possible...
...character sketch. The other role is Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), a frigid young spinster whose odd habits include hanging up chairs on wall hooks. Julia weds Moon in a marriage of convenience: she needs someone to work her unsuccessful gold mine, while he needs a respectable wife to shield him from the law. The thin story traces the predictable warming up of their relationship. Pretty soon the film becomes a string of uneven set pieces, the best of which suggest Nichols and May as rewritten by Mark Twain...
...halfbacks Kathy Batter, Gia Johnson and Sarah Fischer, up from center fullback, are some of the best athletes on the team and need only to learn to co-ordinate their play with that of the fullbacks to weld a goal-tight shield around Mahon...