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...performed a tenor role, he is in fact a baritone. Pre-casting may have also accounted for the imperfect chemistry between Baldwin’s Carmen and Greenwald’s Don José.Stylistically, Serrand’s “Carmen” shirked traditional grandeur in favor of minimalism. One set piece—a grey building wall—was used to convey the city of Seville as well as the Spanish countryside. Scenery changes were marked by new costumes and shifts in the lighting scheme. Additionally, Greenwald adapted Bizet’s rich orchestral score...
...them the lifestyle of Fischer - married four times and now divorced with a girlfriend half his age - or Schröder, who has a similar record. In a recent poll by the Forsa agency in Berlin, 87% of young people aged 18 to 30 said they were in favor of marriage n favor of marriage, 90% said they wanted (or would probably want) children and 80% believed in one true love. All of that is "a reaction," according to Ulrich Schneekloth, a researcher at TNS Infratest Social Research in Munich, against "the excessive individualization" of the 1968 generation. Conservative politicians...
Almost all of the writers in the Standard distrust international institutions such as the U.N., favor a less-strict separation between church and state, and believe that lower taxes are needed to spur economic growth. But the views expressed in the magazine are certainly not monolithic. For instance, in a 1997 article, economist Irwin Stelzer writes that, to achieve “the long-held and very American ideal of equality of opportunity,” conservatives like himself might consider the possibility of imposing a 100 percent inheritance tax—at least for large estates...
...when Northeastern’s Whitney Shean beat Knoche on the team’s fifth stroke, the scoreboard finally ticked off one more, final goal in the Huskies’ favor...
...little dexterity beyond their ridiculously bad Viking commercials (or are those Huns?). What’s more, the inside of the body of the pen is a game in which one must guide a silver ball through a maze, much like the games we all got as party-favors when we were six. But just like those party-favor games, the pen’s game proved to be too difficult and frustrating, and soon we jumped on the pen shouting, “Who’s smart enough to solve a maze now?” We then...