Word: auletta
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...creation of a political spot is a communal effort among the candidate, his managers and his media experts; if they are expert in politics as well, the media men tend to enlarge their role. Ken Auletta, campaign manager for Howard Samuels in his strong but losing run for the New York gubernatorial nomination, says that he is not sure Samuels even saw all the spots that emerged from hours of filming before they were put on the air. A typical screening session involves the campaign manager, one or two others representing the candidate, and the TV advisers. They may watch...
...that musicologists are not even sure of its history. The theater was equally ancient. But last week this antique combination made the liveliest show in Sweden. II Maestro di Musica, a broadly farcical opera buffa (a pastiche partly based on a 1737 comic opera by Pietro Auletta), filled the Drottningholm Court Theater, built in 1766 during the reign of Queen Lovisa Ulrika. U.S. and European visitors to Stockholm's talent-packed summer music festival learned at first hand why the Swedes are making a new mark for themselves in opera as they already have in movies...