Word: boudoir
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...this is opera, after all--as is evident when, just as the Count is about to discover Cherubino in the Countess's boudoir, everyone stops and sings for 40 minutes. Thus numerous small discontinuities seem unimportant and even proper. The English translation by Elizabeth McNary, for example, has moments of startling insipidity ("Do it my way/ Take the sly way/ Don't sit dreaming/ Don't by scheming") and a few jarring mistakes ("My lordship"). And the occasional intervals of equally forced dialogue sit strangely among the arias. But once you adjust to the production's apparent aim--to showcase...
...second appearance with British Thriller Writer John Gardner as his author, James Bond remains irresistible to women and, considering his advancing age, pretty agile outside the boudoir...
...Dell Vice President Ross Claiborne: "It's a license to print money." The license requires a plucky heroine up against heartrending odds (job problems; the other woman). Object: the tycoon or professional of her choice (see box). Unlike TV soaps or racier novels, the romances always view the boudoir in soft focus, and all true love affairs lead to the altar...
...Carlos might have enlisted is Dieter Koenig, a.k.a. Bruno Schilling. Like the real-life Venezuelan terrorist, German-born Bruno is a ferrety connoisseur of chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain...
...describes Welter, an American Civilization teacher with whom Parker had been publicly intimate for some time, as "a faculty maverick whose views had for years been contrary to those of his colleagues." Professor Paglia adds that "there was a feeling that educational policy was being made in the boudoir." All of this has, of course, had the predictable and unfortunate result of clouding what Gail Parker actually proposes, and it will continue to make it easy for torchbearers of the status quo to dismiss her ideas on the future of higher education as the ravings of "a female Mencken...