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...bother to film Verdi's Otello if you are going to omit its most famous aria, the haunting Willow Song, thus reducing Desdemona to a walk-on? Director Franco Zeffirelli never quite answers that question. The flamboyant Italian's 1983 cinematic version of La Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino...
During the almost 40 years of Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, the underground Communist Party was a symbol and center of opposition. Yet since the return of democracy to Spain in the late '70s, the Communist Party has been on the skids. It captured 23 seats in the 1979 election, but in last month's voting the party, in partnership with a leftist coalition, placed just seven members in the 350-seat lower house of the Cortes. Only Portugal's Communist Party, which never abandoned its allegiance to Moscow, seems to remain strong, consistently hovering around the 19% mark...
...provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron in a nostalgic recreation of dances from her movie musicals. The evening's host was another symbol of Franco-American cooperation, Gene Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris with Caron 35 years ago. Vive l'ensemble...
...toward the center created some doubters. Many of the lost Socialist seats were picked up by the Democratic and Social Center Party of Adolfo Suarez, which boosted its representation from two seats to 19. Suarez, the first elected Prime Minister after the 1975 death of the dictator General Francisco Franco, headed a cautious center-right government. He has since moved to the left of Gonzalez on some issues, and campaigned on a platform calling for the closing of all four U.S. military bases in Spain...
...While Franco could not specify how much money Boston College was losing from the unlicensed sales, he said that the number was "several hundred thousands of dollars." That money and the proceeds from the Bookstore go into the school's fund for general operations...