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...addition to La Rondine, the company has revived Léo Delibes' fragile song of the subcontinent, Lakmé, and mounted an operatic staging of Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd; next month it presents Philip Glass's new opera Akhnaten. Splendid singing? Clarion-voiced Tenor Jerry Hadley shone as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and the company's impressive roster of young sopranos this season includes Kaaren Erickson, Elizabeth Hynes and Elizabeth Knighton...
...perhaps the domestic issue which offers the most compelling reason for a Mondale vote is the area of simple justice for the citizenry. Mondale's proposals sound a clarion call to reversing four years of back-pedalling in enforcing civil rights, maintaining civil liberties, and keeping the Church off-limits in the legislation of our private lives. Particularly disturbing is the prospect that, in a second term, Reagan would be able to name several Supreme Court justices, which could etc his rigidly rightwing conception of the law into the books for decades to come...
...contrasting role of the clowning Clarion, Caudle is excellent, although the depth of his character is not made as apparent as it might be. Clad in a Pittsburgh Pirates cap and a matching outfit of sneakers, yellow Bermuda shorts, cheap black imitation kimono, and Hawaiian-print shirt. Caudle stands out against the simple costumes of the rest of the cast. And with an astute sense of comic timing and expression, he serves as effective fool and foil for the other characters, and as commentator for the audience on the events taking place around...
...their obvious intelligence, however, it is not always easy to know just what neoliberals stand for. Pragmatism is a sound approach to governance, but it is not a clarion call. Challenged to offer specific "new ideas," Hart would drone on about individual training accounts for workers or the need for smaller aircraft carriers. His high-tech notions were often imaginative, but they benumbed voters...
...northern New Jersey, the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 132,900) in the San Fernando Valley. Some of these medium-size dailies, such as North Carolina's Raleigh News and Observer (circ. 129,600), Alaska's Anchorage Daily News (circ. 49,200) and Mississippi's Jackson Clarion-Ledger (circ. 69,900) have earned recent Pulitzers...