Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What nettled the dissenting purists was Ritchard's addition of broadly comic stage business, which kept the house rippling with laughter. When the young page Cherubino pours out his adolescent romantic yearnings in Act I, he does so in Ritchard's version while holding on to a pair of women's drawers draped across a clothesline full of underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according...
Only when the drinker refuses treatment or returns to steady elbow-bending is he fired. "An employer who frequently threatens termination, but does not follow through, furthers the alcoholic's continued drinking," Dr. D'Alonzo believes. "Sometimes this act [of firing] is the trigger that suddenly brings the alcoholic to his senses...
Pleasure from Displeasure. Despite all the washroom jokes, most of Dr. Bergler's homosexuals look and act perfectly masculine, and many are married. Then how did they get that way? Answers Bergler: it all traces back to the nursery...
...elaborate mediation timetable established by the Railway Labor Act precludes a strike before spring. But the railroads have warned that this time they intend to get changes in work rules even at the cost of a strike...
With only four of the nine Council seats, the CCA's position regarding the January mayoralty election is much the same as two years ago. If the four CCA Councillors can agree on a candidate, then the bloc can act as an influential minority...