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Describing the one she could lose it to as "hard to get along with," Witt might be referring to the juicy fact that both Thomas and she will be registering at Calgary under the same assumed name: Carmen. Independently, they selected music from Bizet's opera, and naturally neither would give a thought to changing. As an archetypal character, Carmen has been interpreted in a thousand ways, but this will be the first time one of them will survive...
Director Peter Brook's work in the 1980s includes an 80-minute condensation of Bizet's Carmen and a 9 1/2-hour adaptation of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata. He is probably best remembered for his 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream, which uncovered weighty conflicts of the sexes and social classes in what had been seen as amiably airy farce. That production, gymnastic and visually abstract, signaled a revolutionary intent from the first glance. This time Brook's method is less obtrusive: though there are no sets to speak of, the costumes are in period and the air is abuzz...
...blueberry industry, a mainstay of the region, got a five-part series. But nothing is read more closely than the court page, a list of everyone caught speeding or driving tipsy or lobstering without a license. "I want to see if any of my buddies are in there," says Carmen Griffin, a waitress at the Pineland Diner on Main Street. It may be a yawn in Portland, Me., but in Ellsworth, it's front-page news when there's a bumper crop of scallops or the cops seize a pet snake (the headline: POLICE PUT PERMITLESS PET PYTHON...
...week's end Meese insisted the Government had not "yielded to the demands of the hostage takers." As the detainees were strip-searched, handcuffed and shipped to other prisons, they and their families worried about whether even the limited agreement would be kept. Said Carmen Linares, wife of Detainee Pablo Gonzalez: "We have heard so many things before and been through so much. Everybody has doubts." This time, however, the promises are in writing...
...Ryan, another Ivy League Player of the Year candidate, has completed 62 percent of his passes for 1929 yards, 15 TD's and just five interceptions. Ryan possesses a certain knack to lead crucial Yale comeback victories. Everyone remembers his theatrics a few weeks ago against Penn. Yale Coach Carmen Cozza hopes Ryan still has a few more tricks up his sleeve. When Ryan's hot, the Elis are a tough squad to beat...