Word: adriana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adriana R. Rizzo '86, who has an entry-levelposition at Grey Advertising, in New York, foundher job on her own. She says "Only two ad agenciesshowed up for recruiting, so I went to OCS, pulledout folders and wrote a lot of letters...
Vigna, the only Harvard player who will participate in the All-American Tournament on October 10-12, was down 5-3 in the first set to Adriana Copete but came back to win 10 of the next 11 games to take the match...
Significantly, no one has proved beyond doubt that LEP youngsters learn faster or better through bilingual instruction than by any other methods, including old-fashioned "submersion," i.e., going cold turkey into regular classrooms where only English is spoken. Says Adriana de Kanter, one of the authors of a controversial 1981 study sponsored by the Department of Education: "Basically we found that sometimes (bilingualism) worked, and sometimes it didn't, and that most of the time, it made no difference...
...individual style. For all its harmonic piquancies and orchestral sleight of hand, the score of Francesca sounds derivative-a touch of Puccini, a sprinkle of Debussy, a pinch of Wagner. Further, it lacks a single memorable melody, the essential ingredient that keeps a relic like Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur on the boards. Its plot, however, is operatic gold. Based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio, it recounts an episode from Dante's Inferno. Francesca (Soprano Renata Scotto) is tricked into marrying the deformed Gianciotto (Baritone Cornell MacNeil) when his handsome brother Paolo (Tenor Placido Domingo...
...DIED. Adriana Ivancich, 53, aristocratic Venetian socialite and prizewinning artist of dust covers for Ernest Hemingway's books, who as a beauty of 18 was beloved of the aging, alcoholic writer and inspired Renata, the heroine of his 1950 novel, Across the River and into the Trees; by her own hand (she hanged herself from a tree); at her farm in Capalbio, Italy. In a 1980 book, The White Tower, she contended that the love story had been more a father-daughter relationship than a May-December scandal...