Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also faring well, but not as well as expected, are Detroit's "scaled-down intermediates," mainly such mid-size GM cars as the Oldsmobile Cutlass, Pontiac Grand Prix, Buick Century and Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Lighter and more economical than their ancestors, the new middies' prices are causing some buyers to balk over what they see as getting less car for more money. That has put dealers on the spot. Says Detroit Ford Dealer Jim McDonald: "The customers feel that since a car is smaller, it's bound to have less in it. Our job is basically education...
...Sills scored a success in last season at the San Francisco Opera. Next December she will appear in her last new Met production, Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Two composers are writing operas for her, which are due to be introduced in the spring of 1979. They are Gian Carlo Menotti's Juana la Loca, about the mad daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, for the San Diego Opera, and Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire, based on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, for the New York City Opera...
...there are many others. In 1973 she attended the World's Professional Ballroom Dancing Championships and discovered Richard and Janet Gleave, a British couple who won the Modern competition. Her admiring chapter on the drag ballet troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, is also a witty essay on sexual stereotypes. Perhaps even more than Balanchine, she loves Fred Astaire. A passage describing his partnership with Ginger Rogers could stand as well for Croce's writing about dance: "Passion-the missing element in just about every 'sexy' duet that has been attempted since- is usually confused...
...works; of lung cancer; in New York City. Schippers was fond of saying that he wished he had been born a century earlier, but he made up for lost time. He started playing the piano at four. At 20 he was chosen to conduct the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. He became Menotti's favorite conductor, a regular on the podium at New York's Metropolitan Opera, and in 1970 he was named music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
...entire ship is whirring as it settles to the ground. "We did a lot of experimentation," he says. "But the result is really spectacular. The ship is a city in the sky." The aliens who emerge from the base of Big Mama were the assignment of Italian Designer Carlo Rambaldi, the man who made King Kong in the 1976 film. "The idea was that they will be perhaps 100,000 years ahead of us in the process of evolution," he explains. "They don't use their arms any more except to push buttons, but they do use their minds...