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...Duchess of Malfi. The cut was unkind, since her tragic tale is the very stuff of grand opera. John Webster's play, published in 1623, is admirably lurid and complicated. There is the Duchess's secret and forbidden marriage to her steward Antonio. There are her two evil brothers: Ferdinand, who is driven mad by incestuous passion for her; and the Cardinal, who schemes to be Pope. After her marriage is discovered, the Duchess is imprisoned and tormented by madmen. At the end, everyone dies violently...
...Cambridge, restaurants run the gamut in their fare, their atmosphere and, of course, their prices. As in Boston, the best strategy is to experiment--the reps of Harvard Square restaurants are often deceiving. (Some Cambridge folk, for example, still imagine that Ferdinand's offers a quiet, intimate atmosphere...
There may come a time when you think a trip to a French restaurant is the only way to counter the effect of Union food on your morale and your palate. You begin to mull over all the familiar names--Ferdinand's, Chez Jean, and so on. Forget them. Go instead to Autre Chose, a relative newcomer to the Cambridge scene, located at 1105 Mass...
Okay, now that you've already gone to Autre Chose and maybe your parents are in town, we can talk about Ferdinand's and Chez Jean. Ferdinand's is the more popular; it's a relaxed, rather noisy place with overpriced food. But so long as your parents are paying, it's great...
That unmistakable presidential warning of crackdown worked a dramatic mood change on Manila. A week earlier the capital had been alive with pre-election exhilaration as crowds gathered openly for the first time in nearly six years to hear opposition candidates blast Ferdinand and Imelda for everything from trampling civil rights to amassing private fortunes. Last week the only comments about the presidential couple were paeans from Manila's tame press...