Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a report of a New York State crime committee, he has had business dealings with organized crime and with a major operator of illegal massage parlors. Currently Jamil is under federal indictment in Brook lyn for illegally selling surveillance equipment to Syria and Yugoslavia...
...Lacrosse and Women's Soccer Coach Robert L. Scalise will appear at a conference with Middlesex Country District Altorney Timothy Spillane on July 27 to discuss whether charges against him for being an alleged accessory to an April assault in Brook-line should be brought before a judge...
Karen Allen's Helen is a mountain brook washing over shining pebbles of self-discovery with a child's delight and limpid innocence. As for Converse-Roberts' John, he is a kind of D'Artagnan, fencing for his life, shielding his love against his love. Among them, Playwright Gibson, Director Arthur Penn and the entire cast ignite one of those blazing bonfires that keep serious dramatic theater inextinguishable...
Still, as Musicologist Barry Brook of the City University of New York points out, "No one has to compare Haydn with Mozart. He is not Mozart. But compared with those of the other composers of the 18th century, his operas are superb musically and deserve a far better fate than they've received...
Such works are most effective when staged by what Brook calls "the full forces of a large company in a small hall." Consequently, they are unlikely to find their way into the repertory of the change-resistant and cost-conscious international houses. More likely, they will be performed by smaller companies and at festivals, brought out on special occasions to instruct and delight. "They are never going to run Mozart's Figaro out of existence," says Landon. "They are not the meal, but the sugarplums after the meal." But as such, he believes, "they are going to have...