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...ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life on Oct. 22, 1883, in a nondescript yellow brick building at Broadway and 39th Street in Manhattan, and has evolved into the leading opera company in the U.S. and one of the world's foremost-is being changed too. Consider the forces at work...
...development has been designed to fit in anesthetically with the surrounding architecture, Friedman said. The buildings are red brick and the plan includes money to build a Kennedy Memorial Park along Memorial Drive in front of the development...
Workers installed a 25-ft. brick sculpture designed by the late Anne Norton in front of the Wordsworth bookstore. The work, in an abstract modern style, depicts a "gateway pattern," according to Palles Lombardi, director of Cambridge Arts on the Line...
...Abdul Aziz and the nephew of King Fahd, Bandar is on a first-name basis with many Washington notables, and has entertained such officials as Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger at his McLean, Va., estate overlooking the Potomac. His $1.6 million Georgian brick house, complete with tennis court and swimming pool, happens to be next door to Senator Edward Kennedy's. Says Bandar: "We are good neighbors...
...MUCH OF the South's problem can be traced to the state of the industrial world. Since the world moved to flexible exchange rates in 1971, efforts by a Third World country to raise its exports have run into a brick wall of currency inflation. This has retarded trade and made repayment of foreign loans far more difficult. Now, with the American dollar in its strongest position in decades, most nations have seen the real value of their currency dwindle nearly to nothing. Keeping up payments on loans thus becomes impossible, financing schemes offered by banks only postpone an inevitable...