Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the incandescence of a high-spirited diva. Other noteworthy performances came from American Mezzo Brenda Boozer, who made a lively Meg Page, and Soprano Barbara Hendricks and Tenor Dalmacio Gonzalez, who sang touchingly as the young lovers. British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own. As Giulini put it before opening night, "In opera the composer does the interpretation of the text. Not that there is nothing for the director to do. There...
Then along came Craig Stadler, a walrus who might become a king but is content being a cabbage. At 28, he is both a happy and a happy-go-lucky figure, bountifully blessed in life and golf at the moment, the way everything about him eventually tends to abundance. Stadler is as fat as Nicklaus ever was, but makes no apologies. "I enjoy being myself," he says...
...falls apart. He lies under the kitchen table swilling Jack Daniels, changes his pressed khakis and navy pullover for a sweaty. T-shirt and jeans, and finally gets out to prove himself on his brother's own terms Austin the Eastern-educated, the well-dressed, the content and successful, bets that he can steal a toaster...
...poem's structural twists are made in their content rather than in their syntax: Wright moves much more quickly from localized scenes to global concepts in the prose poems than elsewhere. In "On Having My Pocket Picked In Rome," he writes...
...their careers during the German years with no apparent misgivings. A writer concerned with nothing more political than the relations between the seven could publish books in a Paris dominated by Swastikas, just as an actor could mouth someone else's words, a musician perform concert music without intelligible content...