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Most of the journalists are from the U.S., but there are contingents from Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Japan and Brazil. Paul Ellman of the Times of London, looking at the "circus" at breakfast at the Camino Real, sighed for the days a year ago when "only one floor of the hotel was operating, for six or seven reporters." Back then, he said wistfully, "it was a great little...
...been chopped off at the bottom. Now they are different, looser." Adds Milan's Giorgio Armani: "The new miniskirt is not stiff and straight but soft, fitted at the hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean of Italian designers, argues that "women feel the need for greater liberty. They want to seduce and flirt. The new short skirts are wide and swing as you walk-it's hide and seek." U.S. Designer Perry Ellis...
...gossip linking Galina with Boris seemed credible because of her longtime association with Soviet entertainers. She was once married to a circus strongman and animal trainer. Galina is also rumored to have been friendly with the head of the Soviet State Circus, Anatoli Kolevatov, who is being investigated for extorting bribes from performers. Diamonds and foreign currency worth more than $1 million were reportedly found in Kolevatov's Moscow apartment...
...What are the requirements for modern opera?" asked Zimmermann before his suicide in 1970. "The answer can be given in one sentence: Opera as total theater! In other words: architecture, sculpture, painting, musical theater, spoken theater, ballet, film, microphone, television, tape and sound techniques, electronic music, concrete music, circus, the musical and all forms of motion theater combine to form the phenomenon of pluralistic opera. In my Soldaten I have attempted to take decisive steps in this direction...
...cadences of Tom Waits' bluesy songs 'performed by Waits and Crystal Gayle), these restless lovers find spirits to incarnate their once-in-a-nighttime, winnertake-all hopes. For Frannie, it is Ray (Raul Julia), a latino crooner. For Hank, it is Leila (Nastassia Kinski), a circus acrobat. Hank's dream girl is far enough above reality to convince him that the atmosphere is too rarefied, and he returns to earth to search again for someone he can live with as well as love - Frannie...