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...legend. In presenting what the composer called a "stage-festival play," Kupfer found physical leitmotivs to complement the musical ones and give his production a visual as well as a musical unity. Characters do not just stand and sing; they stand and deliver, fighting with fury or embracing with abandon, falling down faint in ecstasy. < As Wotan (Bass John Tomlinson) bids a sorrowing farewell to Brunnhilde (Soprano Deborah Polaski) at the end of Die Walkure, they both collapse facedown on the ground, overcome with emotion...
...what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...
...idea. "A National Celebration of the Outdoors," modeled on the recommendations of a presidential commission, was to be a week of activities focusing attention on conservation in local communities throughout the country. But last April Mott's boss, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, chewed out the pair and demanded they abandon their efforts. Soon after, Mott and Fraser received a memorandum from Interior's legal office telling them they were under investigation and should retain outside legal counsel. "Hodel humiliated Mott," says one department official...
...founded Acting for Lawyers, loosens up buttoned-down barristers by having them mime such natural events as falling rain and falling leaves. Says Drake: "Lawyers are taught by their training to doubt. I teach them that what they have to do -- and this is what actors do -- is abandon doubt and jump right in." The practice seems to work. Washington Attorney Robert Trout, who has taken a couple of Drake's classes, says they have helped him "find the human story in whatever is the subject matter of the lawsuit...
Democrats had vowed to abandon the folly of faction before, but these promises were like sending the Battling Bickersons to marriage counseling. But 1988 was different, in part, because the primaries symbolized the passing of the generational torch; neither Dukakis nor any of his rivals had been elected to major political office before 1974. The Democratic sweep in that post- Watergate year was a watershed, bringing to power a talented crop of young reformers -- including Dukakis -- who realized that old-fashioned liberalism was in trouble. Social issues such as busing and crime had eroded the party's blue-collar base...