Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literature and who sit in their warm blinds and blast me regularly like a sitting duck, which I am. Now this is going to be one duck with brass knuckles." After serving as a World War II correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, he wrote columns for Figaro Litteraire, Punch, the Daily Mail of London and any number of American newspapers to finance the restless trips that took over his life. He covered everything from political conventions to the Viet Nam War, which he supported nearly to the bitter end. By then his oddly incompatible circle of friends came...
...copies. Last week a columnist for Le Figaro learned of a rat-chewed copy, unearthed by a book collector, and brought it to the world's attention...
Indeed, it is Western, not traditional music, that has become the Japanese lingua franca. On television, the strains of Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro plug Suntory whisky, and a Strauss waltz is used as a background for a refrigerator-deodorizer ad. At a children's concert by the New Japan Philharmonic recently, more than 2,000 grade schoolers in the audience rose at the conductor's behest and, in two-part harmony, sang the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth...
...currencies of Europe into dollars. The dollar, as everyone knows, has never been lustier abroad,* and Americans are in the mood to spend. To encourage them, European Travel Commission ads across the U.S. proclaim: EUROPE! THE GRANDEST HOLIDAY OF ALL. NOW MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER. The Paris daily Le Figaro scolds the mother country for not wooing the American dollar more actively this summer and urges with a wiggle: "The objective in 1984 is to seduce the Americans." The Americans can't seem to wait...
Knowles as the supercilious, genteel Sir Joseph and Bierko as the disgustingly disfigured seafarer Dick Deadeye play magnificently. Knowles, last seen as Figaro in the Lowell House Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro, gives a more distinguished performance this time: His production is impeccable and his stage presence especially his bulging eyes--is extraordinary, Bierko's loud, clear baritone, his bizarre facial contortions, and his dangling motions convey, in the best deadpan performance of the evening, Deadeye's extraordinary despicability and grossness...