Word: 45th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task of cobbling together another coalition government promises to be more arduous than usual. Whatever emerges as Italy's 44th postwar government, it will almost certainly be a transitional stop on the way to the 45th. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Jordan Bonfante and Barry Kalb/Rome
...entire eastern half of Australia is thirsting through a wasting drought that is in many regions the worst in the history of the world's most arid continent. Already, the "Great Dry" has devastated 90% of New South Wales, which is now in its 45th month of drought, and 95% of the state of South Australia, Dubbo, a typical rural town, averages 25.5 in. of annual rainfall. Last year it had 2.3 in. In many areas seeds cannot germinate; in others the regal Murrumbidgee River is nothing but a stagnant puddle. Dust storms have enveloped Melbourne and, five weeks...
...birthday party for his wife Kathryn that was scheduled for March 27, 1981, then hurriedly canceled. Some 400 individuals, many of them city employees and businessmen holding contracts with the city, had contributed at least $122,000, which was to be used to celebrate Mrs. White's 45th birthday...
...this has happened on the screen. Now Russell has turned to the stage for the first time-directing, of all unlikely things, Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress at the 45th Maggio Musicale festival in Florence. Stravinsky, whose centenary is being celebrated this year, conducted the premiere of The Rake in Venice in 1951, and the work has acquired the status of a classic among the composer's admirers. But Russell, ever the iconoclast, has turned it upside down. The jejune quality of Stravinsky's cool, mock-Mozartian music is engulfed in a rush...
Rarely has a show landed on Broadway amid such anticipation, fanfare and ?so far as the ticket price is concerned ?controversy. Just as the Nickleby marquee over the Plymouth Theater dominates Manhattan's West 45th Street, so the R.S.C. production seems sure to set the tone and standard for this season and many to come. It arrives not only as a certified London smash and perhaps a historic theatrical phenomenon but also as a prepackaged television spectacular: the entire performance has been taped for showing as a four-part miniseries on a syndication network in February...