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...Some people say you have a knack for screening out information or impressions that are negative or run against what you believed beforehand. Do you think that is true...
...when a G&S company does decide to produce Utopia it should do a little cutting beforehand: two-and-a-half hours of this circuitous fluff could put even the most hyperactive of audience members to sleep. Not only is the production hampered by its length, but also most of the staging proves too distracting for the weak company to support. Noticeably lacking are introductory overtures before either of the acts. Ordinarily such music helps the audience enter into a nineteenth-century frame of mind. Instead, after a brief warm-up, the opera begins with a riotous choral entrance...
...haven't ruled out a strike," Local 285 Executive Director Nancy Mills said. She added, however, that "We'd have to consider the decision to strike very seriously beforehand because we feel a certain responsibility to the patients...
...related. Huang, 69, was Foreign Minister for nearly six years and has been in poor health for some time. He reportedly asked a year ago to retire. In any case, such conciliatory statements and initiatives to the Soviets would customarily be cleared at the highest policymaking levels in Peking beforehand. It was not ruled out, however, that Strongman Deng Xiaoping might have viewed the departing Huang as a convenient intermediary to make the overture. With Huang out, Deng could more easily dissociate himself from any rapprochement with the Soviets should the move run into serious opposition within the Chinese leadership...
...week in which Begin had had more than his share of troubles. He had been severely criticized by the Israeli press following his appearance before the commission. His testimony, which took 47 minutes, was frequently contradictory; Begin appeared not to have reviewed documents pertaining to the events beforehand. He said he did not learn that the Christian militiamen had been allowed by Israeli occupation forces to enter the camps until a few hours afterward at a Cabinet meeting. He also insisted that no one in command had raised the possibility that the Phalangists would harm anyone but "terrorists." Said Begin...