Word: bin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor quickly signed her to make a recording of the opera. But not quickly enough. A black-market version of her debut was already selling briskly for $25. Artists, who naturally get no royalties from the piratings, are equally irritated. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik, rummaging through a record bin a few years ago, was startled to hear a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company she had never heard of. "You know who that is singing?," she cried at the proprietor. "That...
...parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony bin...
...Writer-Director Alain Jessua raises the question by contrasting the calm, collected self-sufficiency of Jacques with the suffering of compulsive, confused normal people. Is he suggesting that the contemplative life in the modern world can only be lived in the loony bin-or that the only way to be happy is to be crazy? Jessua lets the audience decide for itself. In any case, Actor Denner, who has the hawk nose and almond eyes of a Persian miniature, is a most engaging madman...
...were strictly for the Man Who Has Everything. Lady Bird's offerings: a leather-bound chronicle of the L.B.J. Ranch since 1845; a cowhide portfolio containing a newspaper account of a 1918 visit to Fredericksburg, Va., by Lyndon's father; and a four-foot-high street-refuse bin decorated with photographs of Lady Bird's various trips around the country to encourage roadside-beautification projects. Lynda Bird gave him a photograph album from her travels in the Western U.S. this summer, and Luci Baines presented him with a white leather-bound volume of poems that...
Poetry & a Refuse Bin. The President's official week was climaxed by a physical that disclosed no evidence of any worrisome aftereffects of his 1955 heart attack. Johnson's personal physician, Dr. George G. Burkley, repeated the tactful fiction that his patient weighs only 200 Ibs., but added emphatically: "His health is comparable to that of any man of his age. And he is more active than most...