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...biggest conflict in the new frontier has occurred in Bolivia's sparsely settled Beni region, where the number one export is cocaine. The millions of dollars the fad drug of the 80's has brought to the impoverished nation gives the growers an important role in the national economy. So important, Kandell reports, that the last government which cooperated with Drug Enforcement Administration officials from the United States was quickly removed from office by the military...
More than anything else, the set design by Beni Montresor supplies the production with its anti-gravitational quality. More precisely, the near-total absence of set accomplishes this purpose. A mirrored floor and a red velvet curtain constitute the sole permanent scenery, and both seem oddly out of place. Chairs and a packing crate and blankets on the floor (to suggest beds) appear briefly, as do autumn leaves whose color is much too bright for the mood of the last...
...must be admitted, an intriguing, unanswered dilemma. Ours is not the first age to wrestle with that issue. Some Egyptians, for instance, reluctant to regard their cats as mundane animals, buried them with great ceremony. In 1888 a bumbling farmer dug up an ancient Egyptian cat necropolis at Beni Hasan. The cemetery contained thousands of mummified cats that had been interred, sometimes with embalmed mice for afterworld meals. Enterprising workers unwrapped the cats and sent a consignment of 19 tons of bones to England for conversion into fertilizer...
There is growing evidence that Carter's popularity has eroded in the South. One poll showed him losing to Ted Kennedy in his native Georgia. "Carter is like a man without a country," said Pollster Claibourne Darden. Added Beni Ivey, an Atlanta black woman who campaigned for Carter in 1976: "I get a sense that people just don't understand what is going on. And I'm confused...
...coloratura fireworks in Esclmonde. One hears instead her middle-high range - lustrous, dusky, moving seamlessly between registers. No other singer could bring this music so close to distinction. Among the other principals, Mezzo Huguette Tourangeau, as the Empress' sister, sang with impeccable French style. The sets by Beni Montresor consist mostly of scrims and drops on which light shows swirl. To fashion his opulent costumes, the garment district must have emptied its bins of beads...