Word: gotterdammerung
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...sunny Friday morning two summers ago, Daniel Vasella got quite a wake-up call. Outside his lakefront home near Zug, Switzerland, gigantic speakers blasted Wagner's Gotterdammerung loud enough to rattle the windows. From across the lake, several boats carrying protesters converged on his house. A helicopter delivered a barrel marked with a skull and crossbones to one of the boats. Baffled, Vasella watched as the barrel was ferried to shore and plunked on his lawn...
...being postponed.The media may have a harder time explaining why they were so relentlessly hormonal about a year just because it had three zeroes in it. But the media usually just shrug and move briskly on to the next installment of the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it (Gotterdammerung...
...Bruno Walter and Arthur Rubinstein, who, under contract to different labels, were never permitted to record together. There are David Oistrakh and Dimitri Mitropoulos in their nonpareil, rivetingly intense U.S. debut of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, and memorable farewells like the thrilling immolation scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in 1952 with Walter and Kirsten Flagstad in her last appearance with the Philharmonic, which had the audience applauding for 21 minutes. This set will have you applauding...
Robert Hughes' review "Being a Nuisance," about Bruce Nauman's retrospective show, was nauseating [ART, April 24]. We have come to the Gotterdammerung of art, proved by Hughes' description of Nauman's work Black Balls: ". eight minutes of Nauman's fingers rubbing black pigment in close-up on his scrotum." We have evolved from the excellent sculpture of the Greeks and Romans to Renoir and other French painters-to this. Certainly the Dark Ages are upon...
...Danang-style panic. But the ambassador also believed more fervently, and longer than almost anyone else, in the possibility of an accommodation with the communists. As late as April 28 he was cabling Kissinger that he foresaw Americans staying in Saigon for "a year or more." By then, Gotterdammerung was well under...