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...Bernstein felt the need to add a cumbersome sequel is a mystery. Does anyone care what happens to Mr. and Mrs. Calaf after the curtain goes down on Turandof? But Bernstein and Librettist Stephen Wadsworth, 30, a former editor of Opera News, have gone ahead to construct a convoluted second chapter that picks up 30 years later, just after Dinah's death in a suicidal, drunken car crash. There are now ten characters instead of two: the couple's son Junior (Baritone Timothy Nolen) and daughter Dede (Soprano Sheri Greenawald, in an outstanding performance); Dede's bisexual...
...Construct a new jail so that criminals can be more swiftly processed...
...while onlookers cheered. That one was preceded by yet another at the University of Pennsylvania; there a young woman has charged that she was gang-raped by five to eight fraternity brothers during a party. Class distinctions need not apply. If one is tempted to construct a hypothesis around shiftless young Irishmen in a poor city neighborhood or the unemployed Portuguese in a depressed fishing port, sociology is obliterated by the party boys from the U. of P., no different in kind or action, just privilege. All subhumans are created equal...
Ararta is an elegant construct, a story of form and connections about forms and connections. It is a story whinin a story within a story Rather than the easy metaphor--a series of Russian dolls which unscrew to reveal yet another doll inside-an elegant computer program with multiple subroutines comes closer to characterizing the work...
...names are on waiting lists across the U.S. for the limited number of mobile phones that existing systems can handle. In New York City, for example, where New York Telephone Co. has only 700 mobile phones, the waiting time is ten years. By 1990, AT&T alone expects to construct systems in 35 cities and sign up 1.5 million customers. Telocator Network of America, the industry trade association, estimates that as many as 3 million mobile phones may be in use by 1990, up from 180,000 today. With rental fees and per-call charges averaging $125 a month, annual...