Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affair of State. During World War II, musical Vienna continued to flock to the opera until all theaters were closed in 1944. Toward the war's end, the building was gutted by bombing. After liberation, one of the first decisions by a half-starved but undauntedly sentimental state was to rebuild the opera house...
...opening date. All winter, the ticket stampede was on: a total of 7,000 applications arrived for the 1,658 seats. From the U.S. came pleas backed by blank checks; others offered as much as $500 for one ticket. The problem of choosing the fortunate first-nighters became an affair of state. The Cabinet held special sessions. Finally, the question was settled in a fine, Habsburg-style compromise : the government decreed three "first nights." The first will be Don Giovanni, actually an open rehearsal for government officials, diplomats and Austrian representatives of the arts, admission free...
...Affair of Heart. More than the music, the house itself will be the major attraction. The façade remains practically the same. Inside, the building has been redecorated (in the old ivory, gold and red) and modernized: no gallery pillars to sit behind, earphones for back seats, air-circulation system concealed in the giant crystal chandelier. Part of the former imperial box now holds radio, TV and lighting controls. The new stage is the largest and best-equipped opera stage in the world. Complete sets can be rolled on, revolved, or lowered into a cavernous substage in a matter...
...Radcliffe affair involved Judith E. Cowen, G.Ed., who was assaulted by two hoodlums Friday with a picket fence as she emerged from an office in Peabody House...
...fair strudel. If you beat it 100 times, you will have a good strudel. But if you beat it 101 times, you will have a superb strudel." Dione Lucas ought to know. Born in Italy, raised in France, she is a handsome, 46-year-old Englishwoman whose lifelong love affair with the fine art of cooking be gan at 16 in the kitchen of one of the best restaurants in Paris. Today she is easily the best and most authentic thing of her kind on TV, is seen on film in about 60 U.S. cities and "live...