Word: domingos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Musically, the production, which was conducted by Zubin Mehta, was a stunning triumph. Grace Bumbry as Azucena brought to the part a strong mellow voice and some of the best acting ever seen at the Met. Leontyne Price as Leonora, Sherrill Milnes as the count, and Placido Domingo as the count's brother all shone musically as they were fatally drawn into the vengeful scheming of Azucena and the doom-filled mood of Merrill's production...
...near-derelict San Domingo slowly approaches Delano's President Adams--at anchor off the coast of Trinidad on July 4, 1800--an atmosphere of sultry, pulsing mystery should surround the action, beginning when Delano describes the bizarre view through his telescope: "I see a sulphurous have above her cabin,/ the new sun hangs like a silver dollar to her stern;/ low creeping clouds blow on from them...
...soldiers" who had no stomach for real revolution. Scuffles broke out on the floor, and Danny was hustled out and locked up in a backstage room for half an hour until a semblance of order could be restored. He returned just in time to hear Mexican Delegate Domingo Rojas blame Soviet influence and Fidel Castro for the sad lot of Cuban anarchists languishing in exile in Miami. "Viva Castro!" shouted Danny. "Your anarchists are paid by the CIA." Once again the congress exploded. "Fascist! You're a fascist!" yelled the delegates. With that, Danny and his group of unofficial...
Balaguer is even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...
...government, dispensing all patronage, settling all arguments and making all decisions, even down to personally granting and signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes far more fervently in democracy and the future of his country than in power...