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...vaudeville and movie house), slumps down into a canvas director's chair, then cajoles the dickens out of her pickup orchestra. All these talents were in evidence last week as Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston concluded its 16th season with Rossini's The Barber of Seville...
...Horse. The Barber of Seville! What is Sarah Caldwell doing with a war horse like that, when she could be scoring musicological points by dredging up, say, Cornelius' The Barber of Baghdad! She is doing what any savvy impresario would do-playing to her strength. When a loyal Caldwellite like Beverly Sills is willing to sing her first Rosina, and that master of operatic disguise Donald Gramm is equally eager to sing Bartolo, the savvy thing to do is put on The Barber of Seville...
Except during his service abroad, he has lunched every day for as long as anyone can remember at the same rooftop restaurant of a Lisbon hotel. His hair has been cut by the same barber for 30 years, and his nails have been cared for by the same manicurist for 26 years. A teetotaler, he has stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them...
...Ford shadow presidency reaches out into the country. Barber Conable, one of the most thoughtful and able Republicans in Congress, could employ Ford every week in his district in western New York. Conable's constituents want to see and hear Ford...
...lives of Rubin's Rhade are no longer determined just by their own actions, even combined with the weather and the poverty and lack of sanitation that kill their children. Outsiders affect their lives too, now--Buc, the barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting...