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...story of the widow Judith saving the Israelites by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, who was besieging Bethulia. Such killings, however, were defiant acts against a conqueror and thus not strictly foreign policy assassinations. Rome was sufficiently bloody with assassinations-the murders of Julius Caesar and Tiberius Gracchus, for example-but these were factional acts, intramural mayhem...
turning into the money match of the year ($250,000 to the winner), the pre-game volleys have already begun. Piqued by hecklers at an earlier tournament, Connors at first offered to buy 536 courtside box seats for his confrontation with Newcombe at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. No, thanks, said hotel officials. Then last week Connors' manager Bill Riordan gave a quick backhand to Golfer Jack Nicklaus, who, Riordan claimed, had labeled such big-money, head-to-head sports contests as "ripoffs of the public." Huffed Riordan: "Nicklaus wouldn't be making the big money...
...Siege of Corinth had never been presented at the Met, nor very regularly in modern times until Sills helped revive it in 1969 at Milan's La Scala. Just as Handel's Julius Caesar at the City Opera had established her American reputation in 1966, the La Scala Siege made her an international star. Last week one could see and hear why. In lesser hands, Rossini's florid vocal writing might be just that-little more than tedious vocalizing. With Sills, a mistress of bel canto, each triplet, each double-octave run, each pianissimo high note...
...auditioned for Rudolf Bing, the former general manager of the Met, early in her career, but he wasn't interested. So she joined the New York City Opera, made it big ten years later in Handel's Julius Caesar, and afterward turned down all the contracts Bing gingerly offered. No other singer has been able to do this; it is her legend, and she's proud of it. It became a David-and-Goliath myth which her fans loved and continually embellished, the most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been...
...York City Opera. At the start, her career was decent but unspectacular, notable mostly for her sweet laments in Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe. She achieved her major reputation with a blinding display of Baroque wizardry 8% years ago in Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems...