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CARAMOOR, devoted only partly to opera, is located 40 miles from Manhattan in exurban Katonah and thus barely qualifies as regional. But its locale, an Italian villa surrounded by 180 wooded acres, makes the summeiiong festival a remote, ethereal world apart. Opera performances are held in a 1,500-seat outdoor Venetian theater. The stage is built around three dozen 9th century Greek and Roman columns smuggled out of Italy decades ago and subsequently bought by the late Walter and Lucie Rosen, who owned Caramoor...
...proved the point (with the Philadelphia-based firm of Wallace, McHarg, Roberts & Todd) in plans for projects in exurban Baltimore, Minneapolis and elsewhere...
...Howard Butler has acquired the anti-hero's stock repertory of problems: dissolving marriage, dead-end advertising job in New York, rebellious teen-age daughter, losing bouts with the bottle. So he deserts his wife and exurban New Jersey home to run a tree nursery on a nearby ten acres...
Outward Courtesy. The week's resumed negotiations had begun bleakly enough, with none of the smiles and handshakes that had characterized the autumn meetings. No one greeted Kissinger when he arrived at the Communist villa in exurban Gif-sur-Yvette on the first morning, and he had to open the door himself. Next day at St.-Nom-La-Brêteche, the Americans received the North Vietnamese with similar coolness. By midweek, however, a measure of outward courtesy had returned. On Saturday morning, for the first time in the talks, Kissinger sent for an American-embassy photographer to take...
PAUL SIMON (Columbia). Unpretentious poeticizing about many of the same urban and exurban complaints that Simon & Garfunkel used to adjudicate so well...