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...TAMARA GEVA, 91, witty Russian ballerina-actress; in New York City. Geva, just shy of 16, married the choreographer George Balanchine, becoming, as her autobiography Split Seconds put it, "the first Galatea to his Pygmalion." She set aside dancing in the '30s to act and later starred in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance...
Best of all, though, vocally and comedically, was John Bernard as Alfredo, a character whose very name suggests the world of opera he was to lambaste. Bernard seemed for all the world to be reprising Kevin Kline's role in A Fish Called Wanda, only with a better grasp of Italian. His onstage, offstage, and backstage impromptu arias paid tribute to "La Traviata," "Tosca," "Turandot," "L'Elisir d'Amore," "Der Rosenkavalier, "Aida," and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." As Rosalinda's lover, his goodbye kiss at the end of act one, when he was being...
...have won the tobacco battle--Harvard no longer owns any tobacco stocks, so we don't have to deal with proxies relating to any of the companies that make cigarettes," said Bernard Wolfman, Fessenden professor of law and chair of the ACSR...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/ New York, Jay Branegan/Vancouver, Kim Gooi/Hanoi and Bruce van Voorst/Washington, with other bureaus
...keynote address of the evening came from Bernard Lown, professor of cardiology, emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health...