Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piling horror on horror, Ginastera outclasses anyone now writing for the operatic stage. Beatrix Cenci can best be described as Renaissance Gothic. Based partly on history, partly on the Shelley tragedy, it tells how a young Roman noblewoman (Soprano Arlene Saunders) is seduced by her choleric, morally corrupt father. Count Francesco Cenci (Bass-Baritone Justino Díaz), then revenges herself by arranging his murder. In the end, she is found out, tortured on the rack, beheaded. Not a libretto to every composer's taste, naturally, but just the thing for the savage, harshly dissonant musical style already familiar...
...subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid. And after the first reel, the vampires seem to have lost their bite. Perhaps they, like the viewer, should have been forewarned by James Thurber's celebrated dictum: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched...
...lottery. But the voting did reveal Thieu's growing unpopularity. Thieu had hoped to win a solid two-thirds majority in the 159-seat house, but not even his supporters ran openly under his banner. When the returns were in, it was clear that he could only count on a majority...
...authorities arrive at heroin addiction figures? They count known habitual users, of course, such as those who are arrested and those who sign up for treatment programs. But such figures account for only a fraction of the addict population. To arrive at an overall estimate, officials in many cities project from the number of overdose deaths, one commonly used criterion being 200 addicts for each fatality. A new study in Washington, D.C., indicates that because some overdose deaths have gone undetected, the number of active users may be even higher than previously estimated...
...jurisdictional head-scratching continues, executives in the $110 million bottled water industry grow increasingly anxious for some sort of regulation. Though no cases of illness caused by bottled water have yet been reported, one recent test sampling of four brands of bottled water sold in Washington, D.C., revealed bacteria counts anywhere from seven to 70 times greater in three of the brands than in ordinary Washington area tap water. The highest count was scored by Deer Park Mountain Spring Water, owned by the Nestle Co. But Deer Park officials contend that the bacteria are harmless to human health and contribute...