Word: binging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Sir Rudolf Bing ran a great opera house as if it were his own home. Of sharp tongue and sharper mind, Sir Rudolf tended to every detail at New York City's Metropolitan Opera -- planning the season's repertoire, hiring (and firing) conductors, checking the seamstresses as they worked on costumes. And the divas! Bing did not suffer singers gladly, and prided ) himself on his ability to control prima donnas, cajoling Montserrat Caballe or flaying Maria Callas with equally imperious vigor. In the years immediately following his retirement as general manager in 1972, Bing could still be spotted around...
...Rudolf Bing was spotted in the Caribbean last week, but this time occasionally mumbling "What day is it?" and in the company of a woman with a troubled past. His mind enfeebled by Alzheimer's disease, Bing, now 85, has been living for the past week in a modest two-story bungalow on the island of Anguilla with Carroll Douglass, fortyish, whom he met last year. If she is to be believed, the two are "totally in love" and on their honeymoon; if Bing's court-appointed protectors are to be believed, Bing, a widower and childless, is being victimized...
Sometimes Douglass claims Bing introduced himself to her at a Met performance of Parsifal; at other times she says they met in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building. Bing, whose mental acuity apparently started to decline seriously after his wife of 54 years died in 1983, began writing checks to Douglass. The spending caught the eye of Lawyer Paul Guth, a longtime associate whom Bing once designated to be in charge of his personal affairs in the event he became incapacitated. Concerned, Guth filed a petition to declare Bing incompetent; a legal guardian and conservator were appointed, and Bing...
...John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Erik Amfitheatrof, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott
...John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Erik Amfitheatrof, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott