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...tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino Diaz makes a splendidly vile Iago. Yet Zeffirelli's presumption in heavily editing Verdi's taut masterpiece serves neither movie audiences nor opera lovers well, and the patina of homoeroticism that suffuses the film contradicts the heterosexual spirit of both libretto and score. No wonder he cut Desdemona's big number...
...contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, "but Honduras has no independent foreign policy anymore. We have displaced people on our own territory, a permanent conflict with Nicaragua, and we are isolated internationally. I see an escalation of the war, and I do not know where it will stop...
...successes went to Ed Bosco of Ryebrook, N.Y. and Ron Diaz, of Elizabeth, N.J., who placed an egg inside a life-size, headless stuffed dummy dubbed "Buddy Homeslice." YALE UNIVERSITY...
...their families obtain health care, child care, family planning and Medicaid for children born in the U.S. There is also a Safe Home program which uses stipends to place women and their chidren with Hispanic families for one month, long enough for the women to find employment, says Annette Diaz, coordinator of the women's program...
Passions have never run higher about where and when smokers may light up. "There's a new tyrannical majority that wants to deprive the rest of us of our rights," charges New York City Television Reporter David Diaz, a pack-a- day man. Replies ABC-TV Washington Correspondent Sam Donaldson, an ex- smoker who has been zealously lobbying the White House to ban smoking at press conferences: "I don't think smokers have any rights when it comes to a collision of smokers' vs. nonsmokers' wishes...