Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women, who had paid up to $600 each for illegal passage to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-ft. wooden fishing boat. The group had set out at 2 a.m. Tuesday from Death's Head Beach in the town of Nagua, about 110 miles north of the capital of Santo Domingo. The ship was only four miles out to sea when, according to some survivors, its two outboard motors exploded. Since most of those aboard were unable to swim, many probably drowned within a few minutes of the accident. But others, either swimming or clinging to hastily emptied floating gasoline containers...
...well-traveled poet visits Santo Domingo, where the series is being shot. Elsewhere, he alludes to his own movie, The Kindergarten, about his childhood in the Siberian town of Zima Junction. Fuku and the film share events and images of Yevgeny...
Move over, Zeffirelli. For a $10 million staging of Verdi's Aida this month, Egyptian-born Impresario Fawzi Mitwali rejected sets for the real thing: the Temple of Luxor on the site of ancient Thebes. Besides Tenor Placido Domingo, opening night featured the 525-member Arena di Verona Opera Company, 180 Egyptian soldiers and 200 extras tramping down the Avenue of the Sphinxes...
More than 4,000 of the glitterati paid up to $600 a ticket. But the echoing acoustics proved atrocious ("double Domingo," cracked one listener). Just 14,000 tickets were sold for the other nine performances (the tenor sang only the premiere), leaving Mitwali in debt. The extravaganza was staged over the initial objections of Muslim fundamentalists and Egyptian antiquities officials, who feared the vibrations and crowds might damage the monuments. Still, Domingo says he hopes to return some day to sing Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila. Now that will put the ruins to the test...
...COULD PUT all of this into a book one day. A book of stories as true as what you've just read. I could regale you for pages with tales of my brushes with the high and mighty: Bill Madlock, Cloris Leachman, Howard Cosell, Placido Domingo, Ronald McDonald. The list goes on and on. But I just don't know if I could sleep at night upon the wreckage of the broken careers, the shattered lives that would result from such a work...