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Samuel Johnson called opera "an exotic and irrational entertainment," and maybe it was in 18th century London. There is nothing exotic about the opera boom in America today. In such cities as Omaha, Dallas and even Moorhead, N. Dak., regional companies have taken root, resulting in innovative and exciting operatic activity...
...sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, on the other hand, posed for a Rapid City, S. Dak., bulb squeezer and got more, or less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand as that of his own George Washington, fills the wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly...
Citibank is already preparing for nationwide banking. It has put its VISA and MasterCard into the pockets of 5 million customers throughout the U.S. and is moving its credit-card operation to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where it is free from any restrictions on what interest rate it can charge. Regional banks, such as North Carolina National, and Citizens & Southern in Atlanta, also want the right to expand across state boundaries and are promoting a law that would permit them to do banking in nearby states...
Camelot is alive and well, on motorcycles-in Pittsburgh. The redneck revenge movie has found a new hero-in Shelby, N.C. Teen-age actors play at deadly gang wars-in Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film-in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it-in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play-in Baltimore...
...Clyde Van Sickle Watertown, S. Dak...