Word: alfredo
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GENE SHALIT, film critic, the Today show: "Encino Man [1992; 3] or Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia [1974]. I had to go to the emergency room after each...
...friend who has known Castro since their university days, film-institute president Alfredo Guevara, describes Fidel as obsessed. His friend was always a volcano "that sometimes does harm but sometimes fertilizes the soil." For 40 years he has obsessed--Guevara keeps using the word--over the "consummation of the revolution that we know has not been fully achieved." Yet Fidel is intensely proud that he has again defied world predictions of his imminent demise, as satisfying a triumph to him as any that went before...
Best of all, though, vocally and comedically, was John Bernard as Alfredo, a character whose very name suggests the world of opera he was to lambaste. Bernard seemed for all the world to be reprising Kevin Kline's role in A Fish Called Wanda, only with a better grasp of Italian. His onstage, offstage, and backstage impromptu arias paid tribute to "La Traviata," "Tosca," "Turandot," "L'Elisir d'Amore," "Der Rosenkavalier, "Aida," and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." As Rosalinda's lover, his goodbye kiss at the end of act one, when he was being...
DIED. ANDRES RODRIGUEZ, 73, iron-fisted Paraguayan general turned President who overthrew his repressive boss, Alfredo Stroessner, in 1989; of cancer; in New York. Stroessner's right-hand apparatchik for most of the dictator's nearly 35-year reign, Rodriguez abruptly unlearned his loyal habits when he was elected President after the 1989 coup, urging democratization. He silenced skeptics by voluntarily stepping down in 1993, but the grand gesture was later tainted by persistent charges of drug smuggling...
...Kids will soon ask their parents: "Mommy, what is fettucine alfredo, or quatro formaggio pizzas, or cheese fondue...