Word: angelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third opera shows a new direction. It is Prokofiev's little known The Fiery Angel, an overwrought vision of possession and sexual hysteria. A co- production with Covent Garden, it was directed as an arresting theater piece by British experimental director David Freeman. Freeman uses gymnasts as the devils who torment the heroine, having rehearsed them in concentrated, mesmerizing animal movements that quickly steal the spotlight from the singers. Trendy? Possibly. But the production maintains its musical balance as well...
...were bulldozed for the fair moved in, swelling the waiting list for El Vacie's promised houses. At the fountain, a fistfight broke out between women jostling for water, and one was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg. "Expo is a disaster for the poor," says Miguel Angel Moreno, a local Human Rights Association volunteer. "It drained money from social programs and doubled our cost of living...
...seems perversely timed: Expo has attracted about 7 million visitors in 10 weeks, Madrid is preening as this year's European Cultural Capital, and refurbished Barcelona is welcoming 7,000 members of the international media for the country's first Olympics. "It's good to be self- critical, " says Angel Luis Gonzalo, head of Spain's Expo pavilion. "But we should be boasting more about what we do well...
...Fallen Angel, a play about a rock band that is opening in Chicago next month, features a memorable jailhouse scene in which the young leader of the band visits his father, a convicted financier. Perhaps the playwright, BILLY BOESKY, understood the material all too well. His father, Ivan Boesky, served two years (1988-90) for stock-trading crimes...
...government clearance to hire an antidrug operative. According to Gritz, Perot said, "I want you to uncover and identify everyone dealing cocaine between Colombia and Texas. Once you're sure you've got them all, I want you to wipe them out in a single night like an angel of death." A Perot spokesman denies the two were ever associated in actual operations, and dismisses some of the other stories...