Word: virtualization
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Wintry Fare. At age 30, Conductor James Levine is on his way. A virtual unknown three years ago, Levine now ranks with Michael Tilson Thomas, 28, as one of the two hottest young conductors on the American scene. Tackling such wintry fare as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, or sitting down at the piano to conduct and play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 with a crystalline joy, Levine has given this summer's Ravinia programs new musical depth as well as box office appeal...
Chairman Ervin built a virtual case of impeachment against the President by leading Dean through a series of questions on Ervin's most revered topic, the U.S. Constitution. "And I will ask you as a lawyer if you do not think that surreptitious entry or burglary and the electronic surveillance and penetration constituted a violation of the Fourth Amendment...
...County-run institutions designed to hold either short-term prisoners or those awaiting trial do the least to preserve their inmates' life and health. Many are staffed by personnel unable and unwilling to recognize illness in an inmate; some are so lacking in sanitary facilities that they are virtual breeding grounds for such diseases as hepatitis and gastroenteritis...
...movie ends with a virtual sacrifice. Solitaire, ex-virgin and seer, is to be sacrificed for betraying Mr. Big. There is much preparation, much ritual: fires, effigies, wild-eyed primitives, coffins full of lethal snakes (phony) and about 1500 natives who move in sequence looking possessed. This scene is so good it is repeated, first as a precredit vignette, and once with Solitaire as the finale. Solitaire is dressed in virginal white, and is led, amidst much kicking and screaming to the place of sacrifice, where she is confronted with a poisonous snake; it will presumably bite her somewhere around...
...Cliffe will be a definite underdog in the Europeans, because Radcliffe is a virtual novice when it comes to international competition, and with the exception of Crane, all the Radcliffe starters are first-year rowers. Furthermore, the 'Cliffe's 140-pound average is considerably under the 175-pound averages of the veteran Russian and East German squads...