Word: classical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hawaii last December, watching basketball games and getting paid to be there while it's zero degrees back in Boston," continues Veneziano, referring to his trip with the Boston University men's basketball team to the Rainbow Classic. "I grin whenever I think of that. Obviously, there's a lot of hard work, but I love the opportunity to travel and see parts of the country you don't normally...
Costner is something else: a grownup hero with brains. He's modern and classic. He thinks fast and shoots straight. He has city reflexes that help him beat the big boys at hardball. Yet he stokes memories of the lone man on a horse, silhouetted against the craggy horizon and setting sun of Old West values. He has the requisite danger for big-screen stardom -- the stubbornness in pursuit of ideals, the slow anger when pushed, the threat in a face that can mask its intentions -- even as his actions inspire trust. He could be a husband, a lover...
...TOWN. Washington's Arena Stage gives a fizzy revival to the whole of the classic musical that is exuberantly excerpted in Jerome Robbins' Broadway...
When Christopher Whittle unveiled his plans to bring TV to the nation's classrooms earlier this year, he served up the deal with the classic pitch: everybody would win. Underfunded schools would get tens of thousands of dollars' worth of video equipment free, students would get a news program to teach them that Chernobyl is not Cher's full name, advertisers would get a captive teenage audience, and Whittle would make a healthy profit. Despite loud criticism that the daily newscasts amounted to cynical commercialization of the classroom, Whittle announced last week that he was not only going ahead with...
...chefs have shown more culinary flair than Rosenzweig. Among her classic dishes: chimney-smoked lobster glossed with tarragon butter and buttressed against a crisp cake of threadlike Chinese noodles; roast quail with rhubarb bedded down on dandelion greens; and homespun corn cakes topped with caviar and creme fraiche. Similarly, Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of the stylish Square One in San Francisco, creates an aura of flavor unity on a menu that may offer crusty Italian bread, Russian mushroom soup, pungent Korean steak and a very American spiced persimmon pudding...