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...Santa Fe Opera last week, two important premieres demonstrated just how potent eclecticism can be. John Eaton's The Tempest, with a libretto after Shakespeare by Music Critic Andrew Porter of The New Yorker, is a rich blend of Renaissance music, jazz and electronics that is surrounded by an uncompromisingly modernist microtonal framework. Another happily eclectic work, Hans Werner Henze's The English Cat, takes an anthropomorphic tale by English Playwright Edward Bond, based on Balzac, and sets it to music that freely ranges from kitschy consonance to acerbic dissonance. Both operas have the kind of unquestioned stylistic integrity that...
...screening process is not that narrowly focused, protests Grover ("Rocky") Rees III, who is Meese's special assistant for judicial selection. "We don't have any litmus test." Perhaps not, but the checking procedure has derailed the nomination of the Justice Department's own Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew Frey, for, among other things, his support of an antihandgun group. It also disqualified Judith Whittaker, a highly rated Republican lawyer from Kansas City, for supporting the Equal Rights Amendment...
...early film versions, Ian Fleming's James Bond became Sean Connery. Then Bond turned into Roger Moore. Convinced that Bond was Connery, some moviegoers dismissed Moore as an impostor. Charlton Heston, conversely, performed a miracle of dramatic consolidation in the 1950s and '60s. He became Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson and John the Baptist: everyone this side of God. Heston possessed such brooding gravitas that he could plausibly pass for an abstraction, the decalogue with a strong chin...
After reserve catcher Andrew Casey and Wallace singled to start off the inning, Brown reached third on a two-run error by Bulldog third baseman Matt Stone. Vance, the leadoff hitter, followed with an infield single to drive in Brown and cut Yale’s lead...
...don’t want my name to be associated with lunatics who vomit when people come to recruit students to help protect our country,” Andrew L. Kent ’07 wrote in an e-mail to the Dems open e-mail list, dems-talk...