Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that you Americans are bent on making Watergate Nixon's Waterloo? Are you sure this is what you want to do to the man who got you out of Viet Nam, made friends with the Chinese, lifted the Iron Curtain a bit-all within the past few years? Is this your way of saying thank you to a great leader who has done a lot for peace...
...underline this conception, Ustinov allowed no cast bows after individual arias, no curtain calls at the end of Act I, and only one curtain call at the finale. Fine for the show, but a bit of a sacrifice for the exemplary cast (notably Roger Soyer as the don, Sir Geraint Evans as Leporello, and Heather Harper as Elvira) and Conductor Daniel Barenboim. Only seven years after rearranging a notable piano career to include the baton, Barenboim, 30, made an impressive operatic debut at Edinburgh, bringing forth from the English Chamber Orchestra a powerfully humane and often witty reading ideally geared...
...contrasting to the high, vaulted ceiling, it built an atmosphere of expansiveness (It would be worthwhile, however, for the Loeb to paint the back wall of the stage, or at least remove the smudges, if they intend to go on using any more sets without a final drop or curtain in back...
...difficult to have stayed away for so long. The last time he left quietly, his reputation on the decrescendo, his powers drained after grappling with his third novel, he dragged his speeded out carcass back to Brooklyn, the first act of his life as a serious artist a closed curtain...
Even launch and training sites have been largely out of bounds for Western journalists. Now, as part of the growing scientific cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the Kremlin is be ginning to raise the curtain slightly. Several American correspondents, including TlME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw and Washington-based Aerospace Reporter Jerry Hannifin, have recently been allowed to visit Zvezdnoy Gorodok - Star City - the Soviet Union's cosmonaut-training complex 40 miles northeast of Moscow. Their report...