Word: fe
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...Manhattan Project, was describing when he directed Oppenheimer, saying: "Here at great expense the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy McKibbin, a local woman who managed the tiny Santa Fe office that channeled new arrivals to the growing but highly secret enclave on a desert mesa outside of town. To get at the intrigues of Los Alamos through McKibbin is at times like trying to figure out Hamlet by way of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. But by moving frequently beyond the things...
...easier to play an American icon when you're not an American? I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain. Maybe there's some measure of objectivity. He didn't have that hard R Americans have. [In a loud, nasal voice] "The only thing we have to fe-uh is fe-uh itself...
...Santa Fe company gives The Tempest a vivid production. The cast is generally excellent, as are the sets and lighting, and Bliss Hebert's direction is tight and focused. Conductor Richard Bradshaw tackles the score with panache, bringing Eaton's music ringing to life...
...Theatrical Company, turns the opera into a tragicomedy in the vein of a 19th century melodrama, but one with a pointed moral. In a season that also includes Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Strauss's neglected Die Liebe der Danae, Santa Fe has proved once again that it is the most adventurous, if not to say eclectic, opera company around. --By Michael Walsh
...police supposedly used to track Americans in Moscow. Yurchenko blew the whistle on Edward Lee Howard, the former CIA trainee who allegedly gave Moscow information about a U.S. agent in the Soviet Union. Howard, who had been fired by the agency in 1983, vanished two months ago in Santa Fe while under FBI surveillance; he is now believed to be in Moscow.* The CIA also leaked word that Yurchenko had solved the mystery of Nicholas Shadrin, a defector who, while working for the CIA, disappeared in Vienna in 1975. Yurchenko said that Shadrin had been kidnaped and killed...