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...brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount Everest -- it has that adventure quality. We always think that the KGB cannot be resisted, but she resisted. You can almost see some wretched Soviet policeman wishing she would just go away...
Since its first performance more than a century ago, Richard Wagner's four- evening cycle of mythological music drama, Der Ring des Nibelungen, has been regarded as the Mount Everest of music, a daunting work that remains the ultimate test of operatic mettle. Despite its imposing demands, the Ring has been scaled repeatedly in the past four years -- at Bayreuth, San Francisco and Seattle, among other places. Last week the Metropolitan Opera took up the challenge, opening its 103rd season with a production of Die Walkure, the first installment of a new Ring...
Then, as your classmates plod off again to the library, feeling all the vacuous redundance that accompanies a three day drive across the rolling obscurity of a midwestern prairie, you sink back, relishing the heady exhaustion a mountaineer feels after returning home from an assault on Everest...
...declared that "these are steps in the right direction, but the Japanese have a substantial way to go." Nakasone acknowledged that changes in Japanese spending habits would not come easily. Said he: "This question of restructuring is as difficult as a junior high school student trying to scale Mount Everest. But we think that we can do it, and it will be done." The question that remained: When...
...family, one suspects, manage to spend the billions of dollars they plundered from the Philippines. As easily could Khedive Ismail labor through his harem of 3,000 women. (It is perhaps just as well that Ismail's champagne overdose spared him the exhaustion of trying to scale that particular Everest...