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...couple of days ago to join him. "We have a deal," he says. "I trade her a couple of ballets for a couple of races." In fact, they enjoy each other's company. At a catfish restaurant near the track they argue amiably about tenors. She: Placido Domingo. He: Luciano Pavarotti. Joanne, a fit-looking woman of 52, whose very short hair squares off a strong, self-contained face, says she actually likes to watch her husband race. "Paul likes to test himself," she says. "That's what makes Paul...
...York; Carlo Bini could be excused for believing it was. As the designated cover for Placido Domingo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bini was sitting in the audience studying the production so that he could take the hero's role several days later. When Domingo withdrew with a cold after the first act, however, Bini was propelled onto the stage...
...show-biz royalty was saluting show-biz royalty on opening night as a cavalcade of limos rolled up to the marquee of the Winter Garden, disgorging the likes of Bianca Jagger, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Barbara Walters, Mary Tyler Moore, Placido Domingo and Joanne Woodward. Among them was the graciously articulate poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, the artistic patroness of the production. After the performance, the whole glittering assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that...
...improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzmán planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President in the country's 138-year history to pledge not to seek a second term. The military has said it will not interfere...
Even before Argentine President-designate Reynaldo Bignone announced that banned political parties could resume their activities this week, the most powerful mass movement in modern Argentine history was once again stirring. Peronism, a cult of nationalism, populism and social welfare fostered by the late Juan Domingo Perón, has been a force in Argentina since the mid-1940s. Twice, from 1946 to 1955 and briefly in 1973 and 1974, its founder held power. Twice also, according to the movement's critics, Peronism brought Argentina to the brink of ruin. Yet so strong is the creed's appeal...