Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the biggest hand of an operatic evening is not for the singers -- Leona Mitchell as the eponymous Ethiopian slave girl, Placido Domingo as her hapless Egyptian lover Radames -- but for towering sets and slick stage machinery, then the era of content-free opera is at hand. Under the artistic direction of James Levine and departing general manager Bruce Crawford, the Met has ( suffered from a hardening of its arteries, offering up one lumbering spectacle after another without much apparent thought as to whether they make artistic sense...
Shuttle-bus driver Mulugeta Seraw had just been dropped off by friends at his apartment in Portland, Ore., when a car pulled up. Out jumped three young men sporting shaved heads, military jackets and heavy work boots. Shouting racial slurs, they set upon the 28-year-old Ethiopian, kicking and beating him with a baseball bat. Eight hours later Seraw died in a Portland hospital. Authorities say he was the third person murdered in the U.S. by racist toughs called skinheads...
...groups are also receiving matching funds from the Overseas Development Fund, Marx said. About 40% of the undergraduate student body participated in last year's fast, which raised $3400 for an Oxfamsponsored program to buy plows for Ethiopian peasants, Marx said...
...become an epidemic in a few years. Even though some of the initial panic about the new deadly virus has died down in this country, in Africa, where it originally developed, it is present in frighteningly large percentages and shows no sign of slowing. Also in Africa, the Ethiopian famine that prompted the LiveAid benefit concert still has a death grip on that country...
...School of Journalism and the National Press Photographers Association. Says Picture Editor Michele Stephenson: "The awards are special because they recognize photographs across the spectrum of subjects, illustrating famine, homeless people, war, science, personalities, politics." An image honored in both contests, taken by Staff Photographer William Campbell, depicted an Ethiopian woman cradling her starving child. It was the cover of our Dec. 21, 1987, issue...