Word: carmens
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...frame. In 1957, when Ydígoras made his turbulent campaign for the presidency, Cousin Julia led his street-demonstration gangs. With his victory, she hit the big time. In dinner jacket, she turned up at diplomatic functions with her attractive, fur-clad roommate, Carmen Gandara, 26. Julia first got a job bossing all public purchases, then talked Ydígoras into giving her the Education Ministry...
...1920s. He took over the Komische Oper in 1947, speedily built it into the operatic showcase of a city that also boasts the East Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort) as from the Eastern sector...
Betancourt moved to Costa Rica, joined a Communist-front group, met a pretty young schoolteacher named Carmen Valverde. The romance with Carmen flourished, the one with the Reds did not. Before he left Costa Rica for home in 1936 he married Carmen, but dropped out of the front to plant himself in the anti-Communist left. Back in Venezuela he led a revolutionary underground political party until 1939, when he was thrown out of Venezuela again, this time to Chile...
...Suit is not without virtues. Hume Cronyn brings to the title role the sort of skill that can dramatize a problem and humanize a scene, and Jessica Tandy is engaging as the wife. Some of their scenes together flash with intensity as well as theater; Carmen Mathews has a funny interlude as a drunk; scattered moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales. Every...
...fast. Me, I've got the best writers in the world writing for me-guys like Verdi, Puccini, Bizet." For all his clowning, Merrill is a deadly serious artist who uses his peculiarly suave, resonant and firmly centered baritone to excellent effect, particularly in the roles Warren neglects-Carmen's Escamillo, The Barber Figaro, Don Carlo's Rodrigo...