Word: domingos
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...most of them did with the Royal's Turandot. The casting, for instance. In the title role, veteran Soprano Gwyneth Jones still has a preternaturally loud voice, but her control over it has long since departed, and her wobbly singing is now merely painfully impressive. Tenor Placido Domingo is one of the finest of operatic actors, but even his persuasive characterization of Calaf, the unknown prince who overcomes the ice princess's sexual misanthropy, could not disguise the fact that the part lies uncomfortably high for him. In the pit, Conductor Cohn Davis, leading the opera...
...entered a number of villages in Morazan. Somewhat to their surprise, they encountered only perfunctory resistance. The rebels quickly abandoned the towns, melting into the green hills near the Honduran frontier and leaving behind booby traps. Confident that the victory would hold, the brigade's commander, Lieut. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, commended two freshly combat-tested battalions in a field outside Perquin...
...month earlier, 55 people died in similar riots in the Dominican Republic. Crushed by a $2.5 billion foreign debt and a 1983 trade deficit of $460 million, the government in Santo Domingo was negotiating the second stage of a three-year program of loans totaling about $400 million. Unwisely, it put into effect many of the fund's prescriptions without warning. Over Easter weekend, it shifted the exchange rate on all imports (except petroleum) from one peso per dollar to a free-market rate of 2.5 per dollar. When Dominicans woke up Monday morning, they discovered that many prices...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Marilyn Alva/ St. Lucia and Bernard Diederich/ Santo Domingo...
...planted there a century ago by Army officers trying to please their wives) that indicate water, in this case the Rio Grande. And there, by a washed-out footbridge, a bandanna round his forehead and a bolo tie, secured by a silver-and-turquoise slide, round his neck, stands Domingo Atencio, the beginning of this tale...