Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tearing Toward Berlin. Inevitably the next act will be the Battle of Saigon. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sappers are already probing the outskirts of the uneasy city; mortars and rockets may soon follow. To many observers, the outcome of the battle is no longer in any doubt. According to a secret report to the U.S. Senate last week, the military situation in South Viet Nam is now "irreversible." The capital may fall as early as May 1, said, the report, and nothing short of "decisive military action" by the U.S. could affect that prognosis...
...occasion. Beverly Sills has made it to the stage of the Met at a time when the house needs a star of her talent and box office impact. On the way, she has been heard at such opera capitals as Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, San Carlo of Naples, La Fenice in Venice, not to mention San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston and Cincinnati. There are no more debuts she needs to make, just new roles and unfamiliar music, which is what the saga of Beverly Sills is really all about anyway...
...Against the Berlin Wall...
...like somebody and you suffer from it. But that's how life is." Born the son of a horse trainer in Ireland, raised in a thick atmosphere of decayed gentility and Sinn Fein violence, flung out of home at 16 for making love to the grooms, drifting into Berlin and the tackiest pits of Weimar decadence, changing addresses almost as often as shirts, surviving in an utterly provisional manner as unsuccessful interior decorator in Germany, as professional gambler in England, Bacon is a very English figure - in some ways a modern (and untitled) type of the Restoration libertine...
...buttonholed Southwestern oil barons for contributions to her "hero" Harry Truman during his come-from-behind campaign in 1948. Truman reciprocated in 1949 by creating for her the post of Minister to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where her fetes for the duchess and footloose G.I.s inspired Irving Berlin's 1950 musical Call Me Madam. Her reign as Washington's leading hostess was resumed in 1954 and continued till 1972 with a brief interregnum during the Kennedy years (she backed Nixon in 1960), though she gradually shaded into the role of dowager. Ailing from a hip injury, Mesta...