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...monumental ego is built into a performing temperament like Pavarotti's?it has to be. Yet his associates agree that he has succumbed to no more than a mild case of "tenoritis." Last month, while recording Rossini's William Tell in London, he flared up over the balance between his voice and the orchestra. "Why do 1 sound as if I'm singing in another room?" he shouted after hearing a playback. When the producer defended the balance, Pavarotti slammed his score shut and stomped out of the studio. But the next day he was back to try again. "Luciano...
This bleak demographic problem has been compounded by rising prices and the trend toward earlier retirement. Inflation erodes the real worth of the $280 billion that companies and unions have built up in private pension funds and increases the payout needed to keep the elderly out of poverty. A person who began contributing to a pension fund when he was earning a respectable $2,000 per year in 1939 may now be receiving $6,000 a year from that fund and finding it mighty hard to make do. Earlier retirement, mean while, is shortening the period during which people contribute...
...Havana, it is not unusual to see a 1958 Chevy; in fact, it is rare to see a car that is any newer. To an American, much of Havana looks as though it has been preserved cryogenically for the past 20 years. The old Havana Hilton, built in the late fifties and a white elephant by our contemporary standards, is now the Free Havana and operates in the sweltering heat of the Caribbean climate without working air conditioning. Awkwardly heavy shoes, shapeless polyester pantsuits, and two-piece bathing suits that conceal instead of reveal make it obvious that the island...
Seabrook, which is being built by the New Hampshire Public Service Company, has been the scene of two large-scale civil disobedience actions over the last three years. Large numbers of protesters were arrested at each of the two previous actions...
...Tuesday the Boston Archdiocese announced that it would pay the estimated $150,000 cost of the platform and altars being built for the papal mass on the Boston Common...