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...19th century buffa masterpiece because its music is so innately ingratiating and so illustrative of both character and comic situation. Figaro's patter aria Largo al factotum ("Feeegaro! Feeegaro!") quickly defines him as one of the most likable hustlers in all opera. Rosina's Una voce poco fa is a song of such poise and bravura style as to remove all doubt that she will get her man, Count Almaviva...
...Unity. Many of these all-important details are likely to be cleared up this week during a meeting in Vienna of the Arabs and representatives of other oil-producing countries. But they remained shrouded in mystery last week because the Arabs were going through diplomatic contortions to maintain a façade of unity despite deep divisions. For weeks Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been trying to persuade the other Arab nations to lift the oil embargo in recognition of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's effort to arrange an Arab-Israeli settlement. But they had met strong opposition...
Acrimony and pique have been building up behind the façade of the Atlantic Alliance for months. Last week they erupted, exposing American-European relations at their worst in years. What triggered the blowup was an informal talk that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave to about 225 wives of Congressmen at the State Department. Apparently unaware that journalists were present and thinking that his remarks would be off the record, Kissinger abandoned the carefully measured phrases of diplomacy of which he is a grand master...
...that he saw in Brussels in 1934 when he was 37. And though he is one of the more durable surrealist artists, his imagery-as the selection of his work here indicates-constantly hovers on the edge of cliche. The Delvaux "look" is unmistakable: an empty street of neoclassical façades, a 19th century railway station or a grove of columns, all lit by gas lamps or the moon. The inhabitants are nudes (generally blonde Walloon girls with an air of mild bovine derangement) who wander about, sleep, vaguely study themselves in hand mirrors, and are met by bourgeois...
...Good of Burgundy was such an impassioned buyer that his collection required a staff of 18 guards and varlets. In 1461, at the coronation of Louis XI, Philip gave the citizens of Paris a crushing display of his wealth by hanging tapestries by the bale from his town-house façade, "such a multitude of them that he had them hung over one another," as one chronicler noted...