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...setting off such potent Italian fireworks as Turandot, made a gloriously fearsome opponent as the evil sorceress. Her blazing fury as she confronts her weak husband Telramund (Baritone Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig) near the start of Act II won a spontaneous ovation that stopped the show. Providing a worthy foil for Marton's villainy was Tomowa-Sintow, a lyric soprano with a pure, unforced voice that improved after a somewhat shaky first act; her fateful exchange with Ortrud in the second act's balcony scene evoked the stark contrast of light and dark that Wagner wanted. Alas, Elsa...
...question remaining is when the products of the restructured Harvard program will be able to say they beat perennial foil Brown...
...rebuilding the fallen roofs and tumbled walls of their former homes. They dig tunnels and enlarge caves to accommodate dwellings, schools and medical clinics; they farm by night, when no MiGs or helicopter gunships fly overhead; they use homemade weapons and their knowledge of the difficult terrain to foil the relentless ground attacks of the Soviets. Robert Schultheis, an American freelance writer, spent ten weeks with the men who went back to Dobanday, a once prosperous village that was leveled by the Soviets in 1978. His report...
...Year One, as some opposition leaders have come to call the period since the murder, Aquino has emerged as a rallying point for a wide range of anti-Marcos forces. Aware of the significance of the anniversary, the government spared no effort in trying to foil the tribute. Police had dealt harshly with smaller antigovernment rallies in preceding weeks, quickly breaking up the demonstrations with tear gas, truncheons and water cannons. The government also sought to deny a permit for the August Twenty-One Commemoration Committee demonstration, arguing that it would be used by subversive elements for an assault...
...puzzling why the villainy, and Preston's dogged efforts to cope, should fail as escape literature. The plot of The Fourth Protocol, including the burrowings of the mole who tries to foil Preston, is no more stale or unbelievable than most. Freshness and credibility, in any case, are not requirements. Perhaps the reason is that Preston is without a side. Le Carré would have given him a faithless wife, or at least an ingrown toenail, to tease the mind with antiheroic irony...