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...other soloists. Freshman phenomenon David Ripley acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that he tries too hard, and his efforts to be expressive lead him to forcing and frequent lapses of taste...
John Adams coordinated the ensembles perfectly. The duets between Figaro and Susanna were all well balanced and blended; Susanna and Cherubino's "Aprite, preste aprito," one of the most bubbly spots in the score, came off with the proper mixture of fright and humor...
...When the unsuspecting Thai trainees come through the gate, snipers and mantraps of sharpened pungi stakes greet them. Targets suddenly pop up. As the Thais raise their rifles, the earth nearby explodes from hidden mines-a sequence that has caused many Thai soldiers initially to drop their rifles in fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties: an escape tunnel beneath the village huts, a cache of arms buried under the little shrine of a phi spirit house, which all but Thai Communists might consider sacrosanct. The Thais...
...fear the present bills. You have no room to print a discussion of that length. I limit myself, therefore, here, to saying that quite a number of Departments and individuals within the University favor the bills now before the Congress or, at least, look upon them with much less fright than do Mr. Oettinger, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. Kaplan. For instance, I understand that the University Library does not take the same position as that expressed by the three gentlemen you quote. The Press certainly does not agree with them. And I am entirely sure that numerous Faculty members, authors...
...cuddly, bloated worm with eight eyes, a dangling red tongue and the initials "M.C." prominently inscribed on one of its ears. It was a charming but slightly ludicrous moment, for it made the dauntless prince look like a sissy as he ran away in a cold fright...