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...metronomic beating heart underscored the poetry and contributed to the piece’s ominous air. “In,” a jaunty duet performed and choreographed Todorova and Tufts freshman Bistra Solakova, was decidedly more upbeat than its predecessor, but not exactly carefree. The two strode onstage from opposing corners with newspapers pulled tightly against their faces; when they reached striking distance of each other, they dropped their pages and began circling and lunging at each other like punch-drunk prizefighters. The buoyant strains of No Smoking Orchestra’s “Bubamara?...
...Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode on the Met's stage, and [was compared] to the 'incomparable' [Kirsten] Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century ... A solid (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.) and imposing woman, dramatic soprano Nilsson ... displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role [of Isolde] ... Apparently a more severe critic of herself than...
...John Legend, Fantasia, Maroon 5, Ciara, Will.i.am, Steve Tyler, Joe Perry and Robert Randolph all have one thing in common-they can butcher Sly Stone songs beyond recognition. But at least they tried, as opposed to super duper secret guest star Sly Stone, who emerged with a platinum mohwak, strode to the keyboard, played around for a minute or two and then promptly left. Of course, if someone had killed my songs in tribute, I might have left...
Standing before the festering multitudes, a doctor urged them to go ahead and pick out a family to talk to. "Do you want to go first?" Melinda quietly asked Bill. "No," he answered under his breath, his smile frozen on his face. Melinda strode forward, knelt beside one mother and reached out to help give the baby medicine. Then the doctor sprayed her hands with sanitizer, and they moved on to the next encounter...
...right, boys, no silly buggers," he said. "But if the ball's there to be hit, lay the wood into it." And that was it. Short. Simple. Kind of funny in a way that's hard to explain. But also the essence of batting in a sentence. The pair strode off and soon had their team on course for victory...