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...beginning of Bye Bye Verdi is carried by Remo Airaldi who plays the hefty soprano Aida Lottapasta. Airaldi, who was overwhelming in The Skin of Our Teeth on the Loeb Mainstage in the fall, has captured perfectly the grotesque spirit of the Pudding parody. He is resplendent in a purple gown bedecked with link sausages and a headress of large kitchen utensils. His surreal demeanor is playful as he traipses about the stage a sneer--and a snack--always at hand...
...Some poor and minority students are lucky enough to get advice from a nonprofit group like Aspira of America, where their special needs are recognized. Parents of these students "really don't understand how to help their kids pursue their education, let alone help them complete the forms," says Aida Sanchez-Romano, executive director of Aspira's Chicago branch. The organization stands ready to help its former students who call on it during the tough first year of college life...
...Questions that arose during that meeting prompted the designers to refine the design prior to submitting a formal plan to members in November. At that meeting, commission members did not reject the plan but suggested minor modifications. These were made, and the plan was resubmitted and approved in December. Aida K. Press Director of Public Information Radcliffe College
...Aida K. Press, Radcliffe's director of public information, said the school regretted the commission's original decision, but decided not to contest it. School officials, she said, did not want their "labor of love" turned into a political issue...
...sculpture, and off those, on the upper level, more galleries for painting and decorative arts. This axiality was compared, by critics who saw it in the model or not at all, to the Maginot Line or perhaps the Valley of the Kings -- a set for an Italian production of Aida. Not so: it mediates beautifully between the almost incomprehensibly large space of Laloux's vault and the scale of one's own body. It retains all that was most benevolent in beaux arts grandeur -- the reassurance offered by architecture that the individual is the reason for the state. And every...