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This kind of bravura would not be possible without the billions of barrels of oil that lie beneath the region's sands. Gaddafi and the other oil-rich Arabs have exploited their resources with a shrewd combination of cooperation and militancy. Under the auspices of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), founded by Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia in 1960 to fight a reduction in prices by the oil companies, the eleven major petroleum-producing countries have increased prices 72% since 1970. Last week in Beirut they demanded further compensation to cover the recent erosion of the dollar...
...Bravura Act. In negotiating with the Soviets, Hammer has shown all of his drive, determination and actor's ability to cry or laugh as the occasion seems to demand. He gave a particularly bravura performance during a series of July conferences in which he was determined to get Soviet signatures on some kind of official document. He reminded Soviet officials of the way he had made a fortune in their country in the 1920s, saying: "I have a great debt to the Russian people, and though I am an old man with not many years left, I will...
...greater popularity of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, this is actually the composer's comic masterpiece, a work in which the stuff of childish fantasy is transformed breathtakingly into the best kind of adult fun and games. In the title role, Spain's Teresa Berganza sings with a bravura coloratura style that (among mezzos) only Marilyn Home might match. Conductor Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version of the score (with spurious arias discarded, and some of Rossini's original instrumentation restored), but has produced a performance totally dedicated to the opera...
...bluster and machismo parody his he-man style, Bloody Five is in truth as cruel as his nickname. His power overwhelms everyone but the camp follower, Widow Begbick. She knows the weakness intrinsic to all men especially strong ones, and eventually triggers Five's disgrace. Bloody Five's bravura balances Galy's passive foolishness. As surely as the latter metamorphoses into the army beast, the former weakens and falls. It's grim stuff of which to make laughter, and the comedy does become pretty sinister. Brecht mines the parallel veins of humor and despair, and the production succeeds in emulating...
...become the means to exploit in a richer vein Hollywood drivel about driven genius. His Graudier Brzeska is Artiste Extraordinaire; sacreligious, spontaneous ironic, innocent; ahead his time and shunned for flouting truth that shock prevailing social mores Russell films a disconnected string of melodramatic conceits to give us this bravura story of genius martyred through the neglect of bourgeois complacency...