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...Noble flop or neglected masterpiece? The question has followed Mozart's opera Idomeneo almost since its birth in 1781. Last week in Chicago the Lyric Opera voted for masterpiece, shoring up its case with the kind of virtuoso singing and playing that has made the company synonymous with excellence...
...certainly an important consideration in current star Steve Martin's monologues. The source of his humor is about as far removed from Bruce's as one can imagine. Martin, like Johnny Carson, delivers non-jokes, gags about how his jokes flop, about the ridiculous price of admission, and about how ludicrous the comedian's job is. Lenny Bruce wove his life into the bits he performed for nightclub audiences; Steve Martin (one must assume) leaves his real life behind when he goes onstage to make a fool of himself for the audience's benefit...
...Lillian in her pond house and inspected peanut, corn and watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army of reporters camping out in Americus to come over and "bat some balls" on the Plains diamond. Brother Billy Carter, wearing a sports shirt emblazoned BELLY FLOP AND CANNON BALL DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS, disloyally took the mound for the "Newsies." His brother, decked out in faded cutoffs, lobbed a steady underhand pitch (no spin) for the White House players, the "Jimmy's." When the Newsies won 14-11, Carter's team immediately demanded a rematch...
Henry Kissinger now goes on real vacations to Europe and Mexico, religiously diets (he is down 25 Ibs., to 185), reads all the way through magazines and books, sometimes gets eight hours of sleep a night, presides over quiet dinners in his Georgetown home. His flop-eared hound Tyler has developed an incurable fondness for the main swimming pool on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico hills and also his master's warm bed, the instant Kissinger vacates it in the morning. Private Citizen Henry Kissinger has a trick back like millions of other Americans; he also has income...
Faced with overpowering U.S. competition on world markets and suffering from the commercial flop of Concorde, the French aviation industry needs restructuring into a single, strong entity. Observers reckon that little by little, Dassault will be moved into the orbit of government-owned Aérospatiale, the biggest aircraft company in France (1976 sales: $1.8 billion). But Aérospatiale is ailing. Last year it lost approximately $125 million, thanks mainly to Concorde costs. Clearly this was a situation the government could not tolerate. Last week executives at Aérospatiale headquarters in Paris were jubilant. "Yes, we think...