Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...
That reputation began to slide over the past decade. True, there were highlights like McEwen's 1985 Ring cycle, a dazzling vocal show that remains the best-sung Ring of the past 30 years. But there were also routine evenings of ridden-out war-horses and indifferent conducting. Meanwhile, a deepening budget deficit of $2 million forced the elimination of the company's short summer season. With a bottom-line board of directors perched on his shoulder, McEwen never had the freedom that Adler enjoyed. Nor, apparently, will his successor. "Opera has changed from the autocratic days, when people like...
...perfect advertising campaign in mind. "I've got it. We get a big crowd. Lots of supporters. Then I come out, see, and the crowd really goes wild. I'm wearing just one glove and I'm about to do this great step where I just kind of slide backwards and suddenly my hair spontaneously incinerates. That'll get them out to the polls on October...
...years ago, the people who make decisions about Columbia football--the president of the university, the athletic director and other university officials--agreed that something had to be done to stop the slide. Too much losing is not good. Twenty-six years of losing (Columbia has not had a winning season since 1962) is outright disastrous...
...follow with such fascination and dread the fortunes of the last four big league ballplayers who are older than I am. By daring to stop time for at least one more summer, these final four have become my personal antidotes to middle age, even as I chart their downward slide in the arithmetic of the box scores and the formulaic prose of the sporting pages...