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...WHAT DO YOU MOST LIKE LISTENING TO? Susan Graham singing as the Composer from Ariadne and Placido singing Otello--he was the greatest Otello for 30 years. Luciano, too, was so perfect in every way. I think of him as Ella Fitzgerald, and Placido as Sarah Vaughan. Luciano-- classical, crystal, timeless perfection. Placido--more baroque, a little bit twisted, crazy and sexy. For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style...
...pending nature of their tenure offers, these four professors declined to comment for this story. And although no one can say for sure whether all five will come on board, most within the department are extremely optimistic. “No one has a crystal ball,” says Stauffer, “but they certainly seem very excited...
...Bernanke era promises to be toughest on Fed watchers who have made a living interpreting Greenspan. "Ben is crystal clear in both his writings and his speaking," says Frederic Mishkin, a friend and Columbia University economist. In Bernanke's experience, being direct works. As an 11-year-old, he won the South Carolina state spelling bee--but only after contesting a judge's ruling that he had misspelled a word. "He walked off, then came back and said, 'Excuse me, sir, but I spelled that word correctly,'" recalls his mother Edna. Sure enough, a tape recording proved him right. Bernanke...
...closet. She realized her fantasies. Spending $50,000, she remade her master-bedroom closets, following photos she had ripped out of Architectural Digest. Her husband Bill's closet now has dark wood, granite counters and custom carpeting (plus a secret passageway to his office). Her closet has mirrored doors, crystal knobs, marble counters and muted shades of creamy beige and icy green, much like a Jimmy Choo shop she adores. "It feels like I'm shopping in a fancy store every day," she says...
...many videos and light shows, like Brits Mark Boyle and Joan Hills' Beyond Image and Son of Beyond Image (1969). With a soundtrack by British progressive rockers Soft Machine, it features projections of colored oil floating on water. Or how about German-born Gustav Metzger's Liquid Crystal Projections (1965/2005), a chill-out room with moving images of colored blobs flung onto the walls?why not turn up, drop in and tune out? tel: (49-69) 2998820; www.schirn-kunsthalle.de