Word: splendorous
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...magnificent temple of the god Amon was begun near modern Luxor in Upper Egypt around 2000 B.C. and was continuously added to by generations of succeeding rulers. Now, however, this temple in all its splendor may have a rival. A team from New York's Brooklyn Museum has begun excavating the grounds of the temple of Mut (pronounced Moot), Amon's consort, a few hundred meters south of the temple of Amon, and has hit archaeological pay dirt. The new site, which was used continuously from around 1400 B.C. until as late as Roman times, not only links...
...European opera. Ponnelle attired his Electra in a red fright wig and managed the considerable feat of making Soprano Carol Neblett look less than gorgeous. Electra may be a mixed-up lady; she does not have to be a visual horror. As Idamante, Mezzo Maria Ewing sang with enough splendor to suggest that the gods had blessed her early and often. Unhappily, she had been garbed too boyishly for the youth capable of slaying a sea monster and making women swoon...
...today at 11 a.m.--"Festa Romane," "Fountains of Rome" and "Pines of Rome." The BSO also performs Haydn's Symphony No. 30 in C, the Boston Premiere of Cruckman's "Chiaroscuro," and Respighi again (minus "Festa Romane"). Here's your chance to hear the Respighi--interesting works evoking Roman splendor; the concerts are Friday at 2, Saturday at 8:30, and Tuesday at 7:30. The BU Symphony concert features the exciting Piano Concerto No. 1 by Brahms and "Firebird Suite" by Stravinsky. It's Friday...
Some 150 aeronauts took their airships to Indianola, Iowa, this month for the twelfth Balloon Federation of America's national hot-air balloon championships. They competed in events testing precision flying, wafting in gaudy splendor over the rolling farm lands. Former B.F.A. President Bruce Comstock, who practices three times a week with friends in Ann Arbor, Mich., captured his third title with his striped balloon, christened John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt...
When the rich try to hit it big-or in their case, bigger-they do not go to their neighborhood parish house to play bingo or purchase lottery tickets in a cigar store. Instead, they travel to Kentucky in the summertime and, midst all the splendor of the bluegrass, they buy thoroughbred race horses...