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...Crimson, by contrast, played a strong game, hitting and skating well. Only in the second period did they let up, allowing the Hawks to dominate much of the period and pepper goalie Mark Whiston with 13 shots. Whitson sparkled in the net, stopping a half-dozen point-blank shots with some impressive acrobatics...
...made. Just offhand, it is not clear to an ordinary person how this tremendous complex must await the destruction of these two little buildings in one corner of the large space, since they are to be replaced only by a little park and a parking space for a half-dozen cars on so. Laurence Wylie Dillon Professor Civilization of France Emeritus
...large rectangle. An instrumental ensemble of 24 musicians sits on a raised platform in the center, facing the conductor. Stationed symmetrically around the room are six soloists, also on platforms, playing two pianos, electric organ, harp, cimbalom, vibraphone and xylophone, with each instrument wired for sound. A half-dozen technicians operate a bank of machines on ground level behind the conductor. The most important is the advanced 4X computer developed at IRCAM that can alter and transform live musical sounds with a speed that allows it to function as effectively as a new instrument itself. The performance-the French premiere...
...would want a photograph, specimen or more than one observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...
...season at Dartmouth a week from tomorrow--gave Cleary an opportunity to play seven defensemen, three goalies, and his full contingent of healthy forwards. The results were encouraging ("Oh, sure, we could open the season tomorrow," he said after the game), especially considering that Lowell has already played a half-dozen games including a scrimmage against defending ECAC champion Providence College last week...