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...discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued by Lorenzo, Gamache and everyone else in the massive cast, Kitri and Basilio flee on a romantic adventure that takes them to a gypsy camp and then to a tavern and even transforms them momentarily into spirits in a dream. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza follow, determined to save...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Battling Windmills at the Wang | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

Manuel S. Varela '94 knew he made a mistake when he got a haircut from someone who wasn't is usual barber. He just wonders when he'll stop suffering from his blunder...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Baseball Hat Fad | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...Seventy percent of the guys who go to school here go out with a baseball cap in the morning," says Louie Fenerlis, the manager and a haircutter at the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle St. "They come in here with hat heads...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Baseball Hat Fad | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...Barber Milton Pitts, who had trimmed both Reagan and Bush, shook their hands vigorously while proclaiming to the world, "I could not help noticing two good haircuts up on that stage." Pitts has not been summoned by the Clintonites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Last Roll Call For the Reaganauts | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

What comes next for this young virtuoso? The opera schedule is daunting: The Barber in Houston next spring, her American debut; Don Giovanni in a heavyweight Salzburg production conducted by Barenboim in 1994; the Met's Cosi fan tutte the following season. Bartoli is happily caught up in her repertory, but her fans, as well as many opera managers, already ache to see her expand it. Why not the big-money operas -- Verdi and, above all, Carmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Roman Candle Newcomer | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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