Word: panorama
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Conditions smiled on the race Saturday, and the Black and White's last sprint on the Charles this season carried all the traits of a crew panorama. Spectators lined the shores, crammed the MIT boathouse, and craned necks as the shells shot past. It was a nice day for a race, and a nice way for Radcliffe to race...
Most of all, Seattle is where one goes to be dazzled by some of the most spectacular big-league nature found anywhere. With Puget Sound on one side and Lake Washington on the other, the city is a panorama of pleasure boaters, skyscrapers, the 1962 World's Fair Space Needle and, looming 60 miles to the southeast, the snow-peaked volcanic cone of Mount Rainier...
...Pravda admitted on its front page that Kabul was beset by "unrest" and "insurgency." In the frankest admission of all, the official news agency TASS indicated that the Karmal government was in disfavor with a large part of the population. Another surprising admission was attributed by the Italian magazine Panorama to a Soviet general identified as Mikhail Kirian. He publicly conceded that "in the Afghan army, there have been deser tions," and that "the Afghans will have to work hard to put the army in order...
...Murders" and "The Gods." Its purpose: to show the turbulent destiny of the doomed House of Atreus in chronological order. Barton, master builder of this endeavor, likes to work on the grand scale. In previous years he was celebrated for The Wars of the Roses, a panorama adapted from Shakespeare's dramas. Here he presents the antecedents, history and consequences of the Trojan War. His actors perform in and out of the chorus and move easily from one major role to another in the epic series. Barton, 51, has made the classic treasures of Western drama accessible to modern...