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During a late-night session of the Illinois senate last week, Mark Rhoads, the honorable member from Western Springs, rose to address Philip Rock, esteemed president of the chamber. "You son of a bitch," Rhoads roared. He thereupon threw aside his red leather chair, ripped the microphone from his desk and stormed toward Rock with all deliberate speed. A colleague, however, stepped in Rhoads' path and slugged him. The pair tussled for several moments before they were pulled apart. It was the first time that violence had marred the orderly processes of the Illinois legislature since, um ... ten days...
...countryside where he had recuperated from asthma as a child. Today the troupe is internationally respected for imaginative productions and varied repertory. Pianist Alicia Schachter and her film producer husband Sheldon Rich went to Santa Fe for a vacation in 1972. A year later they started the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Renowned players and composers now cherish its sustained intimacy and stay together for brief postseason tours in Seattle and New York...
...rural Spain, Blood Wedding, with five performances in Spanish. He planned to follow with John O'Keeffe's 1791 English comedy, Wild Oats. "Those thoughts," says Gardner, "came from sitting in west Greenwich Village apartments, not New Mexico. I assumed that because of the opera and the chamber festival, the audience would be sophisticated. When I talked to people about what they wanted to see, everybody, but absolutely everybody, said Neil Simon. I found we had an audience that knew about Hindemith and Stockhausen but nothing about the theater. The Front Page was as close to Neil Simon...
Gardner and his colleagues may have been right to start with something safe. But they may also have established audience expectations of straightforward revelry that Terra Nova will confound. If the Festival Theater is eventually to stand with the opera and the chamber festival, it must play even farces for their fullest meaning-and surely must lift its audience beyond farce. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Santa...
...first press conference after the raid, Begin had been a fount of information-and astonishing misinformation. Even the chief of MOSSAD, Israel's intelligence agency, felt constrained to lament the "devil's dance of public statements and counterstatements." Begin incorrectly said that there was a secret chamber for making bombs beneath the reactor, falsely quoted a Baghdad newspaper to the effect that the reactor was to be used "against the Zionist enemy," and claimed that the reactor would soon become operational, a view contradicted even by some senior Israeli military officials...