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Despite Domenici's popularity, state Democratic Party leaders had hoped they could give him a run for his money this time around. The Democrats have become increasingly adept with voter registration drives, efforts which paid off handsomely in 1982 when they reclaimed one Senate seat, won the governorship, and gained more congressional votes statewide than the GOP. The leadership was banking on a tough fight for Domenici's seat by Judy Pratt, a charasmatic former state senator who would be New Mexico's first woman senator...
Domingo notwithstanding, the Met's Lohengrin was far from a one-man show. Marton, a dazzling Wagnerian soprano who is equally adept at setting off such potent Italian fireworks as Turandot, made a gloriously fearsome opponent as the evil sorceress. Her blazing fury as she confronts her weak husband Telramund (Baritone Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig) near the start of Act II won a spontaneous ovation that stopped the show. Providing a worthy foil for Marton's villainy was Tomowa-Sintow, a lyric soprano with a pure, unforced voice that improved after a somewhat shaky first act; her fateful exchange...
...White House in 1956 could the Republicans offer a more salable candidate. Polls are showing Reagan at the peak of his popularity with American voters; they are also documenting signs of new national feelings of patriotism and optimism that could only benefit an incumbent, particularly one so adept at exploiting that mood-a mood Reagan gets much credit for fostering...
...trials in May. For death-defying suspense, the spectacle of Gabriela reeling to a 37th-place finish was the most prolonged horror of the Games. She is a ski instructor in Sun Valley, Idaho, grotesquely adept at staying upright. Nobody in the Coliseum could either help, touch or help being touched by the looniness of the long-distance runner...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...