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Opera's newfound place in the American home necessarily meant that it was supposed to reinforce a larger and vastly more successful cultural institution: Family Values. Koestenbaum's recollection of a recording of Carmen designed for little children strikes a humorous chord in anyone who has wondered how the lithe, scantily clad, and sexually uninhibited gypsy girl of Merimee's novel came to be transformed in the opera houses of mid-twentieth century America into the postured prima donna in the floor-lenght dress whose idea of sexual flirtation is to glue her chin to her chest and to peep...
Where, then, is opera's appeal to a group that undoubtedly profits from the liberation of society It is this underlying sense of morality in opera (upon reflection, Carmen's violent death at the hands of her jilted lover makes her more palatable to society in general?) that so closely ties in with a central theme of Koestenbaum's book; opera's appeal to the "other" of society, to those who deviate from the "norm." As the surrogate voice of those who feared exposure and openness, such as closeted gays, opera liberated them, but also ultimately betrayed them, condemning...
Electronic Arts, a leading producer of games for personal computers and video- game machines, announced it will acquire Broderbund Software in a $400 million stock swap. Broderbund, specializing in educational software, made its name with the phenomenally popular Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego...
...those physically unable to get to the polls. Many of the fraudulent ballots were cast by Puerto Rican natives who say they were duped by people offering absentee ballots as "una nueva forma de votar" -- a new way to vote. "She said, 'Sign. I'll do the rest,' " recalls Carmen Silva, 55. "I signed. I didn't know for who or what." Others were encouraged to sign for members of their families. Zoraida Rodriguez voted on behalf of her husband, who was in jail. Nineteen ballots, according to the Inquirer, appear to have been outright forgeries. Among them are those...
...alike as far as schools go, and we stick together in things, so there's an alliance between us," Saunders said. "This is exemplified by Coach [Carmen] Cozza and Coach [Joe] Restic. But when we face each other, we have a fierce rivalry--the fiercest...