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...full of sandwich meats, boudin and cheeses, a teakettle and a coffeepot, four fire extinguishers, three boxes of Raid mosquito coils, a can of Hot Shot fly and mosquito killer, kitchen matches, a Rayovac Workhorse flashlight, salt, a toolbox, two spinning rods, a case of Budweiser -- and Richard Cretini, the captain, who likes to be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Gone Shrimping | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...Scala conductor in the audience stood up and took Menotti's side. "Cretini! Stùpidi! Ignoranti!" he exploded. "You haven't even read the libretto!" Possibly some of the Commies in the audience knew all about the libretto-The Consul is bitterly antitotalitarian. Even after it was over, and cast and composer took their curtain calls, the battle raged on, with fists flying, outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Menotti Flayed | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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